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Starfish Vision: How a Kingdom-shaped Church Will Disciple Half the Planet by Wolfgang Simson

This booklet will explain the vision in short – and why this requires at least 200 million new churches to be planted. And it is an invitation for you to seriously ask God how you could join this snowballing momentum. What you have in print or on your screen, however, is only a visionary flyer, part of a much larger approach thought through in more detail. It is the greatly abbreviated, tip-of-the-iceberg version of a far more extensive book called “The Starfish Manifesto”.


Part One: WHAT IS GOD DOING?

For those with eyes to see, we are standing at the beginning of probably the final leg of history. Many historic biblical prophecies speak of cata- clysmic events due at the end of the age. By all scientific standards in regards to the history of religion, church, politics and even economics, mankind is currently witnessing a global seismic value shift with unique geo-political consequences.

Many followers of Christ instinctively know that these developments are essentially spiritual in nature, ushering in a time where all of humanity is being positioned for an age that only those will thoroughly understand and shape whose “Lord is their God” (Zec 12:5). God speaks, and it happens. He issues a decree - and this creates huge waves of reactions, initiates spiritual momentum and global “Mega-Trends” that are not born out of human design, but at the intention of God.

For those who can see beyond the current heated war of religions, the stagnation of traditional Christianity, the globalization of an emerging unified political system and an enslaving economy of Babylonian injustice benefiting amazingly few people, one thing becomes clear: God is doing something in our days that, in term of its scope and magnitude, “you would not believe even if you were told” (Hab 1). Many people of God can feel in their bones and marrow that we stand on a threshold, at a true watershed moment in history...

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“The Starfish Manifesto”. If you want to get into this, and find out about the rest of the iceberg, you definitely will want to download and study this book - and other resources - by accessing the Starfish website portal: www.starfishportal.net


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