IMB Relationships Levels, Goals & Guidelines

1. IMB Relationships Levels, Goals & Guidelines IMB missionaries relate to non_IMB entities at different levels depending on their goals and needs. These relationships range form expedient to eternal in their significance. The deeper the level, the greater its significance. Level Five Level Five: Goals: Ministerial training, theological education, ordination, deploying missionaries, etc. Guiding Principle: Doctrinal Purity Level Four: Goal: New Testament Churches (i.e. Baptist or baptistic). Guiding Principle: Commitment to planting New Testament churches. Level Three: Goals: Evangelism & Scripture distribution. Guiding Principle: Commitment to biblical evangelism. Level Two: Goal: Prayer for the population, ministry to felt needs for purpose of pre-evangelism. Guiding Principle: Response to spiritual & physical needs. Level Four Level Three Level Two Level One: Goal: Entry to the target population (e.g. tourism, business, education, etc). Guiding Principle: Suitability to the target population. Level One