MORE INFORMATION – background to “Seven Mountains” concept (www.reclaim7mountains.com from a transcript of an interview with Loren Cunningham, YWAM) “It was August, 1975. My family and I were up in a little cabin in Colorado.
The Lord had given me that day a list of things I had never thought about before. He said, ‘This is the
way to reach America and nations for God. You have to see them like classrooms or like places that were
already there, and go into them with those who are already working in those areas.’ I call them ‘mind-moulders’ or ‘spheres’.
I got
the word ‘spheres’ from 2 Corinthians 10 where Paul speaks in the New American Standard about the spheres he had
been called into. There
were seven of them. A
little later in the day, the ranger came up, and said, ‘There is a phone call for you back at the ranger’s station.’
So I went back down, about 7 miles, and took the call. It was a mutual friend who said, ‘Bill
Bright (from Campus Crusade for Christ) is in Colorado the same time as you are. Would you come over and
meet with them?’ So my wife and I flew over on a private plane of a friend of ours. As we came in and greeted each other and
I was reaching for my yellow paper that I had written on the day before, Bill said, ‘Loren, I want to show you what
God has shown me!’ It was virtually the same list that God had given me. Three weeks later my wife saw Dr Francis
Shaffer on TV and he had the same list! And so I realized that this was for the body of Christ. I gave it for the first time in Hamburg,
Germany to hundreds of young people gathered there. I said to them, ‘These are the areas you can go into as missionaries.’ (Loren listed them.) First is family –
the institution set up by God. Then church, or the people of God. The area of school, or education. The fourth – media,
public communication in all forms, printed and electronic. Then celebration – the arts, entertainment, sports, where
you celebrate culture. The whole area of the economy, which starts with innovations in science and technology, productivity, sales, and service.
The whole area we often call business, but we sometimes leave out the scientific part, which actually
raises the wealth of the world. Anything new, like making sand into chips for a microchip, that increases
wealth in the world. Then there’s sales and service that helps to spread the wealth. The seventh area is government
with three branches: judicial, legislative and executive. Under these seven spheres are subgroups, literally thousands. These seven can be considered like Caleb: ‘Give me this mountain’.
And they can be a ‘mountain’ to achieve for God. We can be missionaries, one sent of Jesus. Whichever mountain
you work in, you are sent of God, working for His glory, and we make whatever we do, a holy work unto the Lord.
He can shine into every one of the spheres, onto every mountain that needs to be climbed and brought into the kingdom
of God. So, we
have this challenge for this generation that just fits perfectly and I think it’s like dry kindling ready to be set
afire, and it’s going to spread like a wildfire in a hurry and across the nations and across the internet in every form,
texting, blogging, YouTube, etc, as people give their testimony of what God is doing and then through that, beginning to effect
their sphere of life. All
the spheres, mountains, working together is how we achieve the kingdom of God.” | 
