Context for the Jubilee Covenant
This covenant was signed by more than 30,000 YWAMers and associates. This document was introduced at the UofN Workshop (held simultaneously in South Africa, Egypt, Switzerland, and the Ukraine) just prior to YWAM’s fiftieth anniversary year. It was a major element of the 44 jubilee “family reunion” events Loren and Darlene Cunningham traveled to around the world in 2010. Though more individual and devotional in nature than our previous covenant renewal documents, this statement expressed a sense of hope and forward thrust which came as a result of the intentional re-alignment efforts of the preceding years.
The theme of missional innovation was encouraged through a declared awareness that “God’s Spirit is at work in amazing ways around the world” and that we needed to be attentive to His call in “such a time as this” and be willing to “follow Jesus wherever” He would lead us. The theme of alls and everys is evident in the opening declaration of purpose: “that every individual might be redeemed and every society transformed by the Gospel.” It is also underlined in the final commitment: “to do everything I can possibly do to fulfill the Great
Commission.”
THE JUBILEE COVENANT
2010 - Celebrating 50 Years of YWAM
I recognize that as YWAM celebrates fifty years of ministry, God’s Spirit is at work in amazing ways around the world.
I eagerly want to do my part to make sure that “the flame goes forward” and thus help fulfill God’s dream that every individual might hear and that all nations may be impacted by the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
I consider it a great privilege to be alive and called “for such a time as this” – and therefore, by God’s grace, I commit myself:
1. To love the Lord my God with all my heart, soul, mind and strength, and to love my neighbor as myself (Mark 12:28-31)
2. To seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness above every concern for my own life and future (Matthew 6:25-34)
3. To serve others for no greater reason than my love for God (John 21:15-17)
4. To take up my cross and follow Jesus wherever He leads me (Mark 8:34-35)
5. To do everything I can possibly do through the power of the Holy Spirit at work in me to fulfill the Great Commission in this generation (Mark 16:15)
I covenant before God – together with my brothers and sisters – to make these my priorities until “the earth is filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea” (Habakkuk 2:14).
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Signature Date
© 2020 by Youth With A Mission (a California, USA corporation, established 1961: “The YWAM Covenants.”
This covenant was signed by more than 30,000 YWAMers and associates. This document was introduced at the UofN Workshop (held simultaneously in South Africa, Egypt, Switzerland, and the Ukraine) just prior to YWAM’s fiftieth anniversary year. It was a major element of the 44 jubilee “family reunion” events Loren and Darlene Cunningham traveled to around the world in 2010. Though more individual and devotional in nature than our previous covenant renewal documents, this statement expressed a sense of hope and forward thrust which came as a result of the intentional re-alignment efforts of the preceding years.
The theme of missional innovation was encouraged through a declared awareness that “God’s Spirit is at work in amazing ways around the world” and that we needed to be attentive to His call in “such a time as this” and be willing to “follow Jesus wherever” He would lead us. The theme of alls and everys is evident in the opening declaration of purpose: “that every individual might be redeemed and every society transformed by the Gospel.” It is also underlined in the final commitment: “to do everything I can possibly do to fulfill the Great
Commission.”
THE JUBILEE COVENANT
2010 - Celebrating 50 Years of YWAM
I recognize that as YWAM celebrates fifty years of ministry, God’s Spirit is at work in amazing ways around the world.
I eagerly want to do my part to make sure that “the flame goes forward” and thus help fulfill God’s dream that every individual might hear and that all nations may be impacted by the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
I consider it a great privilege to be alive and called “for such a time as this” – and therefore, by God’s grace, I commit myself:
1. To love the Lord my God with all my heart, soul, mind and strength, and to love my neighbor as myself (Mark 12:28-31)
2. To seek first His Kingdom and His righteousness above every concern for my own life and future (Matthew 6:25-34)
3. To serve others for no greater reason than my love for God (John 21:15-17)
4. To take up my cross and follow Jesus wherever He leads me (Mark 8:34-35)
5. To do everything I can possibly do through the power of the Holy Spirit at work in me to fulfill the Great Commission in this generation (Mark 16:15)
I covenant before God – together with my brothers and sisters – to make these my priorities until “the earth is filled with the knowledge of the glory of the Lord as the waters cover the sea” (Habakkuk 2:14).
_________________________________________ ___________________
Signature Date
© 2020 by Youth With A Mission (a California, USA corporation, established 1961: “The YWAM Covenants.”
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