Frontier missions thought and practices, related to reaching unreached peoples, have been developed by wrestling with various terms, assumptions, orientations, and practices over the past four decades.

Frontier missiology continues to be dynamic and developing but there are some core values, convictions, and practices that have emerged that can provide a common orientation and paradigm.

Here are just five of the principles every person should understand about this particular common orientation.

They are written from the perspective of those working through this kind of grid.

1. We believe that every person and every people must have direct access to God, and there must be no cultural imposition that impedes man's ability to respond to the gospel
2. We are reluctant to dictate any unilateral determination of one's collective religious identity. But we also affirm the freedom to throw off any custom or religious practice that impedes, spoils, or constrains a person's ability to follow Christ.
3. We view church from the perspective of the Kingdom of God, which allows us to transcend any particular cultures' pre-suppositions regarding church custom, practice, and organization.
4. We respect that the ecclesia (the Body of Christ) in any particular cultural or religious context will need to determine how Christ encounters their particular culture and will need an active contextualization that sorts and sifts what to accept, what to adapt and what to reject from their own culture.
5. We advocate for younger forms of ecclesial life, so that new movements of redeemed life are free to express themselves through traditional customs and identity. These forms are not required by all believers; but it is a path that is at least supported and understood as a necessary bridge sometimes.

Those working at the very frontiers of frontier mission engagement have learned some hard lessons over the years. After being mobilized to the last and largest remaining blocs of unreached people groups, many have discovered principles that relate to a potential kind of common orientation for the work of frontier mission.

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