This is why the gospel is truly ‘good news’—we don’t have to do anything to be right with God. Christ has accomplished it all. We accept this with faith and a believing heart, which too is a gift of God.
For the past two millennia, the church has wrestled with the questions of how she should best grow in her faith and what exactly it is she’s called to do in the world. People from ascetic hermits to monastic orders to parachurch organizations have attempted to answer these most basic questions concerning the Christian life.
For the past fifty years, one of the world’s largest missions agencies, Youth With a Mission (YWAM), has also attempted to answer these questions. Founded by Loren Cunningham in 1960, YWAM currently works in over 1,100 locations in 180 countries with a staff ...