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Neighborhoods, and 80% Windows, continued

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 C 1 Communities. As a ministry of World Impact, TUMI is dedicated to generating and strategically facilitating dynamic, indigenous C 1 church planting movements targeted to reach the 80% Window of America’s inner cities. A. TUMI seeks to generate and strategically facilitate indigenous C 1 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) . 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. neighborhoods) represent one of the most strategic and dynamic fields in the entire earth, James 2.5, cf. Luke 4.18. 2. The urban poor (i.e., C 1 3. Facilitating movements that plant healthy churches in C 1 neighborhoods is perhaps one of the greatest efforts anyone can make in fulfilling the Great Commission in our generation. C. The rationale: four reasons why TUMI focuses on church planting among C 1 populations: