- Know that the greatest hindrance to missions is a weak sending church and put major effort into establishing the church as the Pastoral Epistles direct.
- Understand the task of missions is to evangelize strategically, establish congregations by instructing disciples and forming them in the context of the local church, and entrusting them to faithful leaders who will replicate this process.
- Support the centrality of the local church in the role of commissioning and sending equipping leaders for church establishment and expansion in mission work.
- Identify faithful men who can be trusted with the kerygma and didache with the process of testing, training, and affirming their entrustment.
- See multiplication of churches as the form of expansion of the church and the Gospel rather than simply building bigger and bigger churches.
- Expect that the bulk of mission work, that the church partners with and supports, agrees and practices these principles.
- Partners in missions should have proved themselves in their local church in character and competency.
-They should be recognized by their local church as elders if they are going to be engaged in appointing other leaders over the church(es).
-They should see their primary allegiance and accountability to their local sending church rather than their mission board or organization.
-They should be committed to the establishment, growth, and expansion of local churches, and their role as a tool that is not indispensable in that process.
-They should be diligently working on passing on the baton to faithful men who will be able to teach others also.
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