Becoming Like Your Teacher

Code of Conduct TUMI’s Core Values

When you are deployed in enemy-occupied territory to establish a church (which literally is an outpost of the Kingdom of God), you will encounter spiritual opposition. Our spiritual combatant, the evil one, has gone before you and filled your target area with spiritual land mines and barriers designed to wound, kill, and destroy you and your team. His goal is to sabotage your efforts, rendering inoperative your work and the task you have been called and commissioned to accomplish. Values are like metal detectors that give you a warning when you sweep over a potential mine. Values will help you side-step and eliminate these spiritual mines of destruction. Now is the time, as a church planter apprentice, to know your “metal detector.” Church planters and their team are involved in making hundreds of decisions every day. The decisions that are made are a reflection of your values. Your values direct you towards your specific purpose, which is the calling and task that you have been commissioned to accomplish as confirmed by the Holy Spirit through his Church.

When walking through enemy occupied territory, you use values to:

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