Planting Churches among the City's Poor - Volume 1

P ART III: P LANTING U RBAN C HURCHES • 323

4. The “keys of the Kingdom” are given to the Church: binding and loosing.

Matt. 18.18 (ESV) – Truly, I say to you, whatever you bind on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatever you loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

IV. Application to the Vision:

“ To Facilitate Pioneer Church Planting Movements among America’s Unreached C1 Communities. As a ministry of World Impact, TUMI is dedicated to generating and strategically facilitating dynamic, indigenous C1 church planting movements targeted to reach the 80% Window of America’s inner cities.” A. TUMI seeks to generate and strategically facilitate indigenous C1 church planting movements (dynamic spiritual awakening and advancement of the Kingdom among the poorest of the poor in the cities of America and the world). B. TUMI targets its activities on the 80% Window (those communities and urban areas where eighty percent of all urban poor residents in America dwell).

C. The rationale: four reasons why TUMI focuses on church planting among C1 populations

1. The Church of Jesus Christ alone is the locus and agent of the Kingdom of God on earth during this Age, 2 Cor. 5.20.

2. The urban poor (i.e., C1 neighborhoods) represent one of the most strategic and dynamic fields in the entire earth, James 2.5 cf. Luke 4.18. 3. Facilitating movements that plant healthy churches in C1 neighborhoods is perhaps one of the greatest efforts anyone can make in fulfilling the Great Commission in our generation.

4. Targeting the 80% Window could very well be the most strategic focus in mission that any urban ministry could have.