I want to plant as many churches as God allows with the resources he gives us, meanwhile influencing others worldwide to share the vision. Influence has to be more than talk, because talk is safe and cheap. Safe in that we could pursue our own goals and gloat if we made them. Cheap because it costs us nothing outside of the tightly knit structure over which I hold board-delegated authority. Power and resources The secret to any kind of partnership for world evangelization lies in what we choose to do with the power we hold over our structure, and how that power affects our resources.
Individuality is obsessed with control of power and resources.
Call it institutional pride, vision maintenance, organization responsibility, or any other fancy, self-justifying term. Power and resources directly block the path of partnership. The United World Mission can have an influence far beyond its size by partnering with non-Western sending agencies that are not denominationally related. We want to help these agencies to become international sending agencies. However, my desire to see something broader is based on two perceptions.