¡®Stand in the GAP (Ezekiel 22:30)¡¯

Contents

Introduction: National Transformation and Global Saturation Movement
1. Vision of Global Saturation Movement
2. Definition of Global Saturation Movement
3. Hurdles of Global Saturation Movement
4. Goals of Global Saturation Movement
5. Principles of Global Saturation Movement
6. Strategies of Global Assistance Partners
7. Partnering with Global Assistance Partners
8. Partnering for Global Saturation
9. Global Assistance Partners Mission Organization

Introduction

National Transformation and Global Saturation Movement

From the beginning of missions in Korea, God planted the vision for world evangelism in the hearts of people that are a part of Korean churches and mission organizations. The result of Korean churches joining together to pray for world evangelism was that, within one century, most of Korea has heard the gospel, churches have been planted in all areas, and Christian meetings have begun in many workplaces. In 100 years, Korean churches achieved their goal of transforming 25% of the population into Christians, and is presently helping in world evangelism by sending out more than 13,000 missionaries to 164 countries (data from March, 2003). How God has worked through Korean churches is an extraordinary example of world evangelization.
Luis Bush, a former executive director of AD 2000 and Beyond Movement and currently director of Transform World, states that Korea has served as the representative country for National Transformation Movement. The former director of DAWN Ministries (Discipling A Whole Nation), Steve Steele stated that Korean National Transformation Movement is a great example for the Church Planting Movement. Thomas Wang, chairman of 1989 Manila World Evangelization and president of 21st Century Movement has recommended Korean churches to be a role model for World Evangelization. Moreover Raul Justiniano, director of COICOM stated that Korea is a model for My 100% for Christ Movement. Furthermore, leaders who minister to the professionals say that Korea is the example for the Professional Mission Movement.
The greatest contribution towards world evangelization for Korea is to share the vision, strategies, experiences, and spiritual gifts that God has bestowed upon Korean National Transformation Movement and World Evangelization to world-wide church leaders. Then the world-wide church leaders after receiving the vision to completely evangelize their country can work together with Korean churches through prayer, the Holy Spirit, evangelism, and acts of love to build a nation of God.
Korean churches do not have enough mission resources to do the world mission for the Western Church. However, Korean churches have been blessed by God to have the experiences of National Transformation Movement and world evangelization. Therefore, any country can apply these biblical principles to totally transform their country to a God-believing nation. If God transformed a nation that hold traditional Buddhism, Confucianism and Shamanism, God will transform any nation that will pray continuously for national evangelism.

1. Vision of Global Saturation Movement

A. God¡¯s Covenant

"This is the covenant I will make with the house of Israel after that time," declares the LORD. "I will put my law in their minds and write it on their hearts. I will be their God, and they will be my people. (Jeremiah 31:33)

And the LORD has declared this day that you are his people, his treasured possession as he promised, and that you are to keep all his commands. He has declared that he will set you in praise, fame and honor high above all the nations he has made and that you will be a people holy to the LORD your God, as he promised. (Deuteronomy 26:18-19)

Then our sons in their youth will be like well-nurtured plants, and our daughters will be like pillars carved to adorn a palace. Our barns will be filled with every kind of provision. Our sheep will increase by thousands, by tens of thousands in our fields; our oxen will draw heavy loads. There will be no breaching of walls, no going into captivity, no cry of distress in our streets. Blessed are the people of whom this is true; blessed are the people whose God is the LORD. (Psalms 144:12-15)

God has promised that if any nation or person believes Jehovah as their God then they will become God¡¯s blessed people. And this blessed nation will become a channel of blessing to the world.
If a nation receives God¡¯s blessing through evangelism, the land will overflow with milk and honey, and God¡¯s peace will be upon the land. Families will be united with faith and love. God¡¯s word will be taught as the nation¡¯s textbook and will resulting in a nation of biblical culture with people of integrity. The people of that nation will excel in all areas and will help to build other godly nations
Any nation that becomes a God¡¯s nation after evangelization will be blessed by God to become a nation advanced in economy, science, culture and politics and the nation will become a light to the world delivering the world from darkness.
God will enable any nation that turns to Him to be advance in economics, science, culture, and politics. And that nation will become a light to the world delivering others from darkness.
God¡¯s will is for His kingdom to be established in this world by all the people in the world coming to Him. (Rev. 11:15)

B. Jesus¡¯ Great Commission

Mark 16:15 (NIV)
He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.

Matthew 28:19-20 (NIV)
Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, [20] and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.

Jesus commanded his disciples to spread the gospel to all the people in the world and to make disciples of all nations and tribes. The vision and goal of life for all the disciples following Jesus is to tell the gospel to everyone, to plant churches everywhere, to make disciples in every level of society, and to evangelize all nations.

2. Definition of Global Saturation Movement

First, transforming a nation requires exposing everyone to the gospel. Second, churches are planted everywhere. Third, disciples and evangelists are being raised in every level of society (workplace, military, police, school, prison, and communication centers). Fourth, every structure of society is saturated with the gospel establishes godly ¡°laws¡±, ethics, education, culture, economics, and science. Last, all Christians are missions oriented.
Global Assistance Partners began its movements by praying, partnering, networking, and assisting other churches to pursue their own national world-evangelism movement.

3. Hurdles of Global Saturation Movement

Recently, mission strategist Luis Bush stated, after surveying many church leaders in different countries, that there are three reasons why national world- evangelism is not fulfilled.

A. Lack of Vision
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Most church leaders lack vision towards national world-evangelism. In order to completely evangelize a nation, one must believe and pray that it is God¡¯s will for its own nation to be evangelized.
One must believe as Paul did when he said, ¡°If there were any way I could be cursed by the Messiah so they could be blessed by him, I¡¯d do it in a minute. They're my family. Romans 9:3 (MsgB)". All the Christians¡¯ heart must be on fire with this desire to completely evangelize their nation.

The evangelization of 25% of Korea is a benchmark for achieving total evangelism of Korea. Korean Churches have to pray daily for total evangelism and set the remaining 75% of Korea as their vision. And they have to trust God with all of their hearts to fulfill this vision.

If all Christians pray for total evangelism?with the willingness Paul had to give up his own salvation?surely God will hear us and help us to evangelize the world. People will be filled with the Holy Spirit, see miracles, and cold hearts will burn with love as Christian meet together. Great awakenings will come to all the churches and Korea will be totally evangelized. In a few years, reunification will occur and national evangelism will be fulfilled.
Joel 2:28 (NIV) ¡°And afterward, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your old men will dream dreams, your young men will see visions.¡±
Acts 2:16-18 (NIV) No, this is what was spoken by the prophet Joel:
[17] " 'In the last days, God says, I will pour out my Spirit on all people. Your sons and daughters will prophesy, your young men will see visions, your old men will dream dreams. [18] Even on my servants, both men and women, I will pour out my Spirit in those days, and they will prophesy.

B. Lack of Leadership

Most of church leaders are not trained to achieve national evangelization. The key to leadership development is total devotion to God. When a leader trusts God for national evangelism, God provides the necessary wisdom, power, resources, tools, and creative strategies. We must train and guide all church leaders so that they can establish systematic national evangelism, develop resources and strategies for their own nation. Church leaders must prioritize mobilizing their churches for national and world evangelization. To fulfill the Great Commission, trained leaders must pass on the vision for national and world evangelism to their church members.

C. Lack of Resource

Most un-evangelized countries lack resources to evangelize their nations. Although church leaders might have the vision and training, without the resources it is difficult to fulfill the Great Commission. In order for the country to launch national evangelism, it needs at least 10% of its population to be Christians. Therefore, all the churches must work and pray diligently to sow the seed of the gospel. If a nation cannot launch its national evangelistic movement due to difficult circumstances, other mature churches must come together to pray, train, and provide resources necessary for the country to start its national evangelism movement.

4. Goals of the Global Saturation Movement

The main goal of the National World Evangelism Movement is to build partnerships between churches and mission organizations throughout the world to empower the countries to fulfill the Great Commission. Global Assistance Partners International along with Korean churches throughout the world are working to pursue the following ministry goals.
A. We will pursue by the Global Saturation Movement 2020 by the year 2020
1) Spread the gospel to the 1.3 billion who have not yet heard the gospel,
2) Plant 12 million churches in an un-churched area,
3) Train one million leaders and,
4) Send out 100,000 missionaries.

B. In order to accomplish the goals of the Global Saturation Movement, we will support National World Evangelization Movements.

1) Envisioning
We will cast a biblical vision to all the Christians and church leaders about National World Evangelization. We will help all church leaders to be on the frontlines leading the National World Evangelization Movement as John Knox asked God to save his nation by saying, ¡°Give me Scotland or else give me death!¡±

In addition, we will assist church leaders to help other nations share the National World Evangelization Movement. We will assist believers to live with a world evangelization vision by helping them to have National World Evangelization as their number one priority in evangelizing their own district and businesses.

2) Equipping
We will assist church leaders by equipping them to fulfill the National World Evangelization. Leadership training, we will assist leaders to strategize in workplaces, schools, and cities for national and world evangelism. Thus leaders will be equipped to pursue National World Evangelization movements by establishing home churches, local churches, starting discipleship and leadership training.

3) Enabling
We will assist church leaders by equipping them with resources?training materials, evangelistic tools, and finances to fulfill the National World Evangelization. If we support a movement that enables national missionaries and churches to take ownership of the National World Evangelization, the world will be reached.

5. Principles of GAP National World Evangelism Movement

The following are the Biblical Principles of Global Assistance Partners Movement:

A. Vision

Korean church leaders have proclaimed visions of Jesus Korea, Bible Korea, and Mission Korea through their prayers and preaching. They desired Korea to be a channel of blessing for all nations by becoming a godly nation. The church leaders planted visions of evangelism?regional, market-place, student, prison, military and overseas within all Christians. Church leaders were on the front lines carrying out all of the aforementioned evangelism. As a result, the goal of world evangelism through national evangelism became the heart¡¯s desire of many Korean Christians.

B. Prayer Movement

Prayer was the most powerful principle behind the National Transformation Movement. In one sentence, Korean church growth happened because of the prayer movement. The Holy Spirit filled the prayer movement during Rev. Sun-Joo Kil¡¯s revival meeting at Jang-Dae-Hyun Church in Pyung-Yang; and this became the grounds for establishing Christianity in Korea. After that, The Billy Graham Crusade in 1973 and Explo ¡¯74 played a major role in expanding prayer movements in Korea. Churches held countless prayer meetings like dawn-break prayer, all night Friday meetings, prayer chains, fasting and intercessory prayers. Even when Korea was completely destroyed after oppression the Korean War, Christians waited on God¡¯s spiritual revival and blessing through prayer. Vision prayer brought faith and hope to Christians. And prayer- centered ministry brought spiritual revival movements that transformed Korea¡¯s spiritual environment. Prayer expressed for them that God was the only one they could trust. That is why, regardless of the time, they prayed and asked God for guidance and help. In addition, they prayed with absolute faith that God can accomplish anything he pleases. Churches met to pray for a common request or to pray out loud in unison. Whether they believed in God or not, they met together to pray for their neighbors¡¯ problem and their salvation. Furthermore, they prayed for the Holy Spirit to work among their lives so that national evangelization will become God¡¯s accomplishment. They asked God for wisdom, for the strategy and resources to evangelize the nation. With answered prayers, they pursued national evangelism and developed ministry strategies that matched the Korean temperament and culture. Prayers of Korean Churches were an expression of their attitude of total trust in God. In order for any country to develop a spiritual climate for national evangelism, people¡¯s prayers have to become a lifestyle, and church ministries have to be prayer centered.

C. Evangelism Movement

As the Korean Churches were planted, its members traveled throughout neighborhoods and un-churched areas to evangelize. When they lacked full time workers, church elders and deacons went forth to proclaim the gospel. Christians who had a heart for a godly culture witnessed in their communities and workplaces. In order for a nation to be evangelized, all of believers must receive evangelism training, and evangelism must become their lifestyle?witnessing to their families, neighbors, and business associates.

A Church also has to become a local evangelism center where the priority and the goal of any program seek to reach non-believers. Furthermore a church must have a plan for local evangelism and must hold regular all-church outreaches with other local churches.

Praying for neighbors and serving them in love creates a window of opportunity for evangelism. Occasionally, churches should get together to hold a crusade on a city or national scale. After proclaiming the national evangelism movement in 1972, Korean churches held a Billy Graham Crusade in 1973 followed by Explore ¡¯74. These large crusades and evangelism training programs became a stepping stone in national evangelism expansion.

D. Church Planting Movement

Since the beginning of Korean churches, most of the church members visited their hometowns and began to spread the gospel to their relatives and planted churches in areas where there were no churches. Where a full-time staffer could not be sent, elders or deacons went to plant churches. Due to such zeal in evangelism, new Christian churches were planted across the nation in a pace described in the book of Acts. In areas such as the deep countryside or islands where workers could not be sent, city churches sent short-term mission teams to plant churches. As churches and its members worked together, churches became the strategic center of their community for spreading the gospel.

E. Training
In order to transform every churchgoer into a ¡°missionary¡±, the Korean churches trained its members to spread the gospel in cooperation with mission organizations. As a result evangelism became part of church members¡¯ lifestyle and they began to witness in communities and workplaces where they live. In addition, by they trained home church leaders and they allowed lay people to become ministers. As ministry was not only limited to full-time workers, the church¡¯s ministries began multiplying. A ministry expanded to include class revival, workplace revival, prison revival and armed services revival. As a result of training, the revival penetrated in all geographical areas, classes and social organizations. This is what an effective national evangelism movement is all about. For a nation to be won for Christ, all Christians need to be trained in spreading the gospel as a disciple so they can reach their communities and workplaces.

F. Leadership Training Movement
The Korean church has focused on developing all of its members into spiritual leaders. Most of the members were required to take the Biblical training and membership training in order for them to be developed as leaders. They also had to take lay leadership training, pastoral extension education, which has aided the church planting movement. In order for the whole nation to be reached with the gospel, professional mission organizations and seminaries need to work together by establishing nurturing centers, bible colleges and seminaries. Furthermore extension schools will help to develop mature and spiritual leaders for national and international revival.

G. Unified Church Movement
Korean churches have cooperated with one another by holding joint revival meetings and conferences. Specifically speaking, Church leaders and lay members have joined forces nationally and globally to pursue revival in communities, regions, the armed forces, educational institutions, the police force, correctional facilities, and workplaces. Through concerted efforts churches can achieve things that are too difficult for individual churches. If the churches in each country could unite and work together the gospel can saturated into all the workplaces, schools, prisons and the press. As churches unite in prayer, hold joint conferences and revivals a cooperative atmosphere is established to spread the gospel to all peoples. As church leaders gather, take an interest in each other, pray for another, and participate in joint activities, the door to unity can be opened. As churches hold joint conferences for the purpose of revival in their communities, people¡¯s hearts will be opened and their perspectives enlarged. When the Korean Church united to hold the 1973 Billy Graham Crusade, Explo ¡¯74 and 1980 World Evangelization Conference, these activities helped to lay a solid groundwork for national revival and global mission efforts by the Korean Church. Even afterwards, the Church has held unified conferences, helping to spread the gospel in Korean society.

H. Children, Youth, Student Movements
The Korean church has Sunday schools and missionary organizations divided by age group. Children and teenage missions groups are actively serving, and each college has its own missionary organization to spread the gospel and provide discipleship. Future church leaders are being trained by churches and missions organizations to help spread the gospel to all levels of society. Without investing spiritually in future generations, the church has no future. The churches of each nation need to establish Sunday schools for pre-school, kindergarten, elementary school, Jr. and Sr. high school, college, and young adults to help spread the gospel to these groups. On average, if children from ages 5 to 12 hear the gospel, they accept Jesus Christ. From ages 12 to 18, the acceptance rate drops to 15%. As much as possible, the church must focus on spreading the gospel to children and teenagers through conferences, revivals, and bible studies to disciple them into new workers for national revival. The priority investment by churches should be children and teenagers. As a result, countless new workers will rise up to spread the gospel.

I. Professionals and Every Level Movement
The Korean Church has an active ministry in this area. Professionals in the financial world disciple those in finance, teachers to other teachers, doctors to other doctors, soldiers to soldiers, prisoners to prisoners, journalists to journalists, students to students. Through such activities there has been a revolutionary revival both nationally and internationally. If we are to effectively evangelize other peoples, each nation must raise up workers who can focus on each social class. The Korean Church has been a model of sustained evangelistic efforts.

J. Global Mission Movement
Since its early years, the Korean Church has been focused on spreading the gospel to the Korean Diaspora and other unreached people in the world. Even in the politically unstable 1980s, the Korean church held a Global Missions Conference in Yoido Plaza and committed to send out 100,000 missionaries. At that time, the Korean Church had sent out less than 100 workers. In 20 years God has blessed the Korean Church so that it could send out 13,000 missionaries throughout the World. Each nation should encourage all believers and churches to focus on the people of the world to not just focus on evangelism in their own nations. Following Jesus¡¯ command to his church to spread the gospel, the aim of all believers should be to evangelize the world and establish churches in all of the unreached areas. All believers need to establish plans for short and long-term mission trips and pray for those unreached peoples. In order to increase the interest of missions, there should be mission conferences on a national level. Mission trips should be taken in order to plant new churches. For all believers to become mission-focused, the church needs to train people and send them on short and long-term mission trips.

Conclusion:
For a nation to be fully evangelized there must be a national atmosphere of revival. Just focusing on one biblical principle will not revive a nation. It is only when all church leaders and members come together and prays for regional revival that enough spiritual power to change the destiny of a nation is formed. For the Korean church to reach 100% of Korea for Christ and achieve reunification, the whole church must spread God¡¯s message and pray. The Korean Church should cooperate with the Korean Christians to help other nations lead their own revivals by passing on the methods that have worked in Korea.

6. Strategies of Global Assistance Partners

To support global evangelism, we seek to help spread the vision and principles used by the Korean Church to Christians in other nations. To support this, we will pursue certain strategic ministries.

A. People of God Movement

To fulfill Jesus¡¯ command to spread the gospel, all believers should be discipled and seek to spread the gospel. The life vision and purpose for believers is that all the world¡¯s peoples hear the gospel. Christians who take spreading the gospel as their number one priority have received training to achieve that purpose; therefore they utilize their finances, spiritual gifts, education, and relationships to spread the gospel.

B. Light House Movement

Like the family churches in Acts, a house where every family prays for their neighbor and helps where necessary is a house which practices Jesus¡¯ love. If all believers show concern for their neighbors and discover their needs and pray for them, there will be opportunities to spread the gospel. A neighbor¡¯s birthday, admission into school, a difficult time provides a chance for believers to actively show concern. And people¡¯s hearts will open. We must gain opportunities to spread the gospel by praying for them and showing them love. If every family of believers becomes a house of love, the believers¡¯ families will become a point of regional evangelism.

C. The Church as the Center of Regional, National and Global Evangelism.

This means leaders of each church must train all believers to evangelize to their workplaces, regions, cities, nations, and world. Church leaders must work with their trained believers and encourage them to bring about regional revival. Churches should take responsibility for their communities, spread the gospel, and plant new churches in areas without a church. Additionally, churches need to unite and work toward national revival. Churches must become the center of evangelism for their communities and the world.

D. Making the Whole Church into Seminaries

Churches can become like Bible colleges and seminaries, helping to raise new workers for evangelism. Pastors become like teachers through regular theological studies and mentoring. Each church establishes a small theology library and unites with other churches in the community to provide regular theological teaching.
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E. Brothers Keeper Movement

Pastors in one region should pray for pastors in other countries, look after one another spiritually for the cause of global evangelism. Through cooperation countless pastors will gain strength and step forward for global evangelism. The best method of pastor training is to model successful pastors. Through cooperation, pastors can look after each others¡¯ spiritual life, and receive much help in their ministry. We must pursue the Brothers Keeper Movement and cooperate for evangelism.

F. My City 100% for Christ

This ministry concerns all believers and church leaders taking responsibility for the souls of 100% of people in their cities. All believers need to come together and pray for the salvation of all people in their city. We can establish a spiritual environment for revival by fasting and praying. To develop all believers into evangelists, each church is conducting evangelism training. Church members who¡¯ve received training go to their workplaces to spread the gospel. Believers who work in the media, offer biblical solutions to social issues and establish an environment in society more receptive to the Bible. Each church has mobilized all of its members for evangelism. The church seems to make every believer¡¯s house a house of love through prayer and spending time together eating or drinking. The church seeks to offer biblical answers to problems non-believers face.

G. Planting Churches in Uncharted Areas Movements

By teaching all church members about church planting, the Church helps members establish new churches in their communities. Community churches set strategies to plant churches in areas that lack churches. Additionally, by reviewing areas in their nations where there are no churches, the church establishes a plan to plant churches. The church helps other leaders by sending out short and long-term missionaries.

H. Vision for the Youth

To reach children, teenagers, and young adults and plant the vision of global evangelism in them, the church conducts seminars, revivals, conferences, and discipleship. Regional churches should help Christians in other nations pursue children, teenager, college ministries through conferences and revivals.

7. Partnering with Global Assistance Partners

A. Church to Church

By one church supporting another, new churches are established. When a church supports a weaker church in another country, the church becomes the center of missions¡¯ ministry. This ministry trains church leaders and teaches the responsibility for churches to help spread the gospel to their regions. All churches should help churches in other nations to establish new churches.

B. Pastor to Pastor

Pastors can reach out to pastors on the mission field by consulting on pastoral duties, looking after the pastor¡¯s spiritual health, and teaching effective ministry strategies. The best way to train pastors to spread the gospel is to show them models of successful pastors. Through good pastors, pastors on the mission field can learn about the pastoral heart. There is no better missionary work than to train a pastor with the vision for community and national revival.

C. Ministry to Ministry

We must establish various ministries in churches on the mission field and provide for professional and other ministries to happen. Sunday schools should help Sunday school ministries on the mission field and children¡¯s ministry should help children¡¯s ministries etc. The best way to help bring about revival is to allow ministry at every level of society to flourish.

8. Partnering for Global Saturation

Each nation¡¯s church leaders cooperate to achieve national and world evangelism.
1. Missionaries and church leaders spread the biblical principles behind the Korean church movement.
2. Help missionaries and church leaders achieve national evangelism (planting churches, development of spiritual leaders, teenage ministry, workplace ministry, and social class ministry).
3. For each nation to achieve revival, the Korean Church seeks to connect missionaries and church leaders with global churches and missionary organizations not just with Korean churches. This will be accomplished by taking the best of churches and mission organizations and by supporting short-term or long-term missions to help missionaries achieve revival in each nation.

9. GAP Mission Organizations

1) Jesus Film Project

The Jesus film has been translated into 880 languages and has been shown to approximately 5.4 billion people. Former DAWN Ministry representative Steve Steel says they have shown the movie in 80% of the churches they have planted.

2) DAWN: Discipline a Whole Nation
Jim Montgomery, a missionary to the Philippines established DAWN to plant churches in areas without churches. The Korean Church helps in collecting information on areas without churches, organizing church planning, training and financial support for church planting.

3) JESUS Disciple International
Professor Youngae Chae went into the Chongbuk area of Korea where there were no churches, and he spread the gospel by living among the people. Leading people to Christ through prayer and love like in Acts is a method the group has spread globally. Through letters of love in China, Japan, the U.S., and other nations the gospel is being spread.

4) COICOM Ministry
This is a way of spreading the gospel 100% to all cities in South America. This ministry is not simply spreading the gospel but reaching out to every resident so that they can receive the gospel. It is a ministry to disciple all people and establish new churches.

5) Saddleback Church
To establish a healthy and balanced church, it has established a model called the Purpose Driven Church. For the last stage of church development, Saddleback Church has focused on making every church member a missionary through the Global P.E.A.C.E. plan.

6) New Life Training Center
This ministry program of CCCI seeks to disciple all believers so they can spread the gospel to all people. The church becomes the center of the and establishes strategies for evangelism to raise up leaders for global revival. Not only does one spread the gospel in his workplace but also helps in workplace and social class revival.