Why LEGACY:
Judges 2:7-14, “The people served the LORD all the days of Joshua, and all the days of the elders … (10) … and there arose another generation after them who did not know the LORD, . . . (14) … The anger of the LORD burned against Israel, and He gave them into the hands of plunderers who plundered them; and He sold them into the hands of their enemies around them …."
Why “International”:
“Ralph Winters, the founding director of the U.S. Center for World Mission, estimates that there are at least two million functioning pastors outside of North America who do not have access to biblical and theological education.”
Why Institute and Essential Training:
Elder qualification: “… so that he will be able both to exhort in sound doctrine and to refute those who contradict." - Titus 1:9
“ . . . only half of the country’s Protestant pastors – 51% - have a biblical worldview.”
-Barna.org
". . . author and researcher George Barna made waves by citing statistics showing just 9% of all born again adults and just 7% of Protestants possess a biblical worldview.”
-Barna.org
"As many as 50 percent of Christian students say they have lost their faith after four years in college.” - Book: University of Destruction
“As a missionary, I was trying to spread the gospel in Europe when someone asked me "How do you know God exists and that the Bible came from Him"? “I was stumped. Not knowing why I believe what I believe actually "shut my mouth - do you know what a horrible thing it to be a missionary and not be able to talk”?
- Former Mercy Ship Missionary
Considering the above, as well as factoring in those young believer that Pastor’s and missionaries disciple, we can easily conclude that the number of global untrained Christians is exponentially at epidemic proportions.
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