Clarifying the 7 Mountains - 10 Principles

What REALLY is the 7 Mountain Message? from Os Hillman on Vimeo.
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(Lee Royal, 5-27-2011)
The Seven Mountains Strategy is Not:

• A theology, 
• Owned by Christian Reconstruction-ism
• Designed to part of a war plan used by "Dominion Theologists" 

The Seven Mountains Strategy is:

A simple organizational strategy for bringing the full message of Christ  across a wide cultural spectrum.

• It illustrates that believers are called to influence individuals at different places in time and culture
• It helps believers value gifts used by people in other areas to reach people
• It is a helpful strategy now, but like any strategy it will fall by the wayside when it is no longer helpful,   (for example, during the "Great Awakenings" tent meetings were effective)
• Like any good strategy,  a heretical group may use it in appropriately

Some seem to have misunderstood or co-opted the 7 Mountain Strategy, so here are 10 Principles guiding how the vast majority of evangelical Christians engage culture in America.

As a Christ Follower in the United States of America,

1. We support the constitution of the United States.
2. We have the right to carry our faith where ever we have access in the culture, in private or public.
3. We have the right to to try and persuade others about our faith, as well as about our political beliefs.
4. There are laws and practices in place that prevent from harassment and unwelcome advances; and they are adequate to prevent abuse without infringing on #3. above.
5. We do not have the right to force others to participate with us in our faith.
6. Our faith shapes our beliefs about justice and government, and we have the right to try and persuade elected officials, like any other member of American society; we also have the right to vote our faith-born convictions.
7. A law shaped by voting our faith-born convictions is not a religious law, it has become a civil law under the constitution.The constitution does not provide for the stripping of religious principle from underpinning civil law.
8. We support the protection of the rights of voter minorities to practice or not practice their faith, and to have a meaningful vote of their counter-majority convictions. This prevents the tyranny of a man-made theocracy.
9. The constitution of the United States prevents the establishment of a theocracy, even if the majority of voters vote it to be so. 
10. The Gospel of Jesus stands on it's own legs in the face of any other faith or human institution;  

The 7 Mountain battle strategy used by a few Christian Reconstructionists must not be confused with a 7 Mountain framework used more widely by Christians not trying to create a man made theocracy.

-Lee Royal

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