How to apply the 7-M Mountains

Hi all, this week we have Dr Peter Wagner preaching to us, continuing from his sermon from last year. At Expo Hall 8, Saturday 16/08/08, he continues to teach on how can we apply the 7-M mandate.

Recap: The 7-M(Mountains) Mandate refers to the 7 Pillars of Society; Religion, Business, Arts & Entertainment, Education, Media, Family.
*You cannot sustain any social transformation without changing all the pillars of society.
*We can change the pillars of society by having kingdom-minded and kingdom-motivated people at the top of each pillars.
Titus 3:5
"not by works of righteousness which we have done, but according to His mercy He saved us, through the washing of regeneration and renewing of the Holy Spirit"
->Regeneration: once in our life, when we receive the Holy Spirit
->Renewing: constant, never-ending process

There are 3 steps for renewal.
1) Awareness: Renewing of our Mind (Paradigm Shift)
2) Identification: Renewing of our Commitment
3) Application: Renewing our Practice

Dr Wagner identified there are 2 kinds of churches!
*Nuclear churches (Pillar of Religion) and Extended Churches(All the other Pillars)
*Many people will visit the nuclear churches once a week, but they neglect the extended churches in the rest of the week.

*Every Mountain have a different culture to it, and to be a leader means to have respect from their peers in the same industry.
*We gain respect from the religion mountain through spirituality, but we gain respect from the other mountains through success.
*When what you do matters to other in the same pillar means that you are gaining influence.
*Therefore we are to be workplace apostles!

Some theories that underlie how leaders operate outside the Religion Mountain.
1) Convergence
->To spend most of your time doing what you are good at.
*If you are able, prioritise your basis based on opportunity, rather than need.
*BBG Motto: Transform, Accumulate, Dominate
->First transform your thinking, then be able to accumulate wealth for His Kingdom, finally dominate the pillar which you are placed in.

2) Constraint
-> To discover the ceiling in your life and find out what's keeping you under the ceiling.
Some type of constraints in a person life.
*Spiritual Constraints - Living in the Flesh, Devils etc.
*Relational Constraints - Think Abraham and Lot
*Financial Constraints - Debts etc
*Lifestyle Constraints - unwise decision in time allocation etc
*Character Constraints - Quote from Dr Wagner 'Take Biblical Holiness Seriously'
*Attitude Constraints - Your personality etc.
*Geographical Constraints - No need to explain this one
*Employment Constraints - As above
*Alignment Constraints - "Apostolic Alignment" He said that he'll teach us this one day...
*Giving Constraints - Not Tithing, giving Offerings
*Curses - Generational or otherwise

3) Triangulation
->To be in the correct alignment to allow you to be fulfulling your fullest potential
*He ran out of time, so this wasn't fully covered :(