Os Hillman teaches Session 1 of 7M Culture Shaping MasterClass

1. WELCOME!
7M Culture-Shapers
M A S T E R C L A S S
Os Hillman
M A S T E R C L A S S
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2. WELCOME!
7M Culture-Shapers
M A S T E R C L A S S
Os Hillman
M A S T E R C L A S S
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3. 7M Introduction & History
How We Lost the Mountains
Session 1
Os Hillman
M A S T E R C L A S S
Session 1

4. Poll
What mountain are you called to affect.
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5. What mountain are
you called to affect?
Have you been trained to know how to
affect your mountain and the others?

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7M Culture Shapers
MasterClass
9 Powerful Teaching & Coaching Sessions Plus 10 Interviews with
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Q & A after each session. Special guest influencers from the 7 mountains.
Session1
7M Introduction & History
How We Lost the Mountains
Session 9
7m Intercession &
Community Transformation
Strategies
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9. Session 1 – Monday, April 23, 7-8pm ET – Introduction and History
Session 2 – Monday, April 30, 7-8pm ET - The Mountain of Business
Session 3 – Monday, May 7, 7-8pm ET - The Mountain of Entertainment
Session 4 – Monday, May 14, 7-8pm ET - The Mountain of Media
Session 5 – Monday, May 21, 7-8pm ET - The Mountain of Government
Session 6 – Monday, May 28, 7-8pm ET - The Mountain of Education
Session 7 – Monday, June 4, 7-8pm ET - The Mountain of the Family
Session 8 – Monday, June 11, 7-8pm ET - The Mountain of Religion/Church
Session 9 - Monday, June 18, 7-8pm ET – Intercession & Community Transformation

10. Let’s Review

11. 12 Years Operated Ad Agency in Atlanta

12. 18 Books - 26 countries
www.tgifbookstore.com

13. Past 7M Conferences – 2005-2008
Teaching about the7 mountains since 2002

14. 19% Christians in U.S. have a
biblical worldview.
Bridgers 3%77- 2010
The Barna Update, “Americans Worldview," 2009.

15. Biblical Worldview by Generations
Builders
65% <'46
Source: Thomas Rainer in “The Bridger Generation”
Boomers 35% '46-'64

16. Christian Worldview
Busters 16% '64-'76
Bridgers 4% 77- 2010

17. 24%
General population
believe Satan is real
52%
Christians
believe Satan is real
Belief in a Literal Satan
When you’re deceived you don’t know you are deceived.

18. 84% of Christian 18 to 29-year-olds admit that they
have no idea how the Bible applies to their field or
professional interests.
---Barna Group, June, 2012.

19. 3 Truths About
Being a Culture-Shaper
1. There are 7 cultural mountains that most shape the
culture.
2. Culture is shaped by a small number of elites operating
at the top of a cultural mountain.
3. The number 1 reason Jesus was an influencer that you
can adopt in your own life – Problem Solving

20. TRUTH #1:
Culture is defined by 7 cultural mountains.
“Spheres, mind-molders, gates”

21. Bill Bright, Campus Crusade for Christ
&
Loren Cunningham, Youth with a Mission
Francis Schaeffer & Pat Robertson
1975

22. 7 Cultural Mountains of Influence

23. What’s been our
success since 1975?
(very little)

24. Why?
• Stopped at evangelism.
• Strategy - Church mountain
• Pluralism in calling - sacred/secular hierarchy
Immaturity of marketplace
Things ARE beginning to shift!

25. There was a tipping point in
our culture in the 1960s
“If I were to attempt to find the beginning of what I
believe is a national neglect of God, I would return
to the 1960s. It seems as though God removed the
hedge of protection from around America in that
decade.” - Dr. Henry Blackaby

27. Deuteronomy 28 – Blessing & Cursing
Our enemies didn’t have to kill us; we simply
disobeyed God, which entitled our enemies to
take our mountains.
Why George Washington took oath of office
April 30, 1789 with Bible verse from Dt 28.

28. Deut 8:19-20
Then it shall be, if you by any means forget the
Lord your God, and follow other gods, and serve
them and worship them, I testify against you this
day that you shall surely perish. As the nations
which the Lord destroys before you, so you shall
perish, because you would not be obedient to the
voice of the Lord your God.

29. Accomplished through Obedience
If you fully obey the LORD your God and
carefully follow all his commands I give you
today, the LORD your God will set you high
above all the nations on earth. - - Deut 28:1-2

30. Why we lost the mountains
Disobedience
Deut 28:15-19
However, if you do not obey the LORD your God and
do not carefully follow all his commands and
decrees I am giving you today, all these curses
will come upon you and overtake you...

32. Today’s Cultural Covenant?
Covenant of Tolerance
“I won’t tell you what to do as long as you
don’t tell me what to do.”

33. Paul Harvey 1964 radio show

34. One man making a big difference
for the opposition
George Soros has been
“discipling” our nation!
• Anti-God values
• Anti-family agendas
• More government control
• Reframing language –
“Progressive Movement”
• Anti-Christian messaging
• Funding hundreds of liberal orgs

35. Beware lest anyone cheat you
through philosophy and empty
deceit, according to the tradition
of men, according to the basic
principles of the world, and not
according to Christ. Col 2:8

36. Understanding the
Spiritual Roots of Problems
To reclaim society back to a Kingdom culture, it will
require us to understand the legal reason that the
devil has a legal right
to hinder our nation.
i.e. Daniel
Once these legal reasons are removed we
can then implement Kingdom influence back
into our culture.

37. SECRET #2:
Culture is defined by a small number
of elites in the 7 mountains.

38. Mountains are Controlled by Small % of
Leaders and Networks
“US culture has been defined
by less than 500 intellectual
cultural philosophers who
influence 7 gates and
supporting networks since our
birth as a nation.”
- Randall Collins, sociologist
and author of Discovery of
Society

39. 2,700
In sum,
between 150 and 3,000
people (a tiny fraction of the roughly
23 billion people living between
600 b.c. and 1900 a.d.) framed the
major contours of all world
civilizations. Clearly, the
transformations
here were top-down.
Randall Collins,
sociologist and author
of Discovery of Society

40. “Indeed, according to Collins,
the total number of
philosophers who are
significant in world history is
approximately 135 to 500
persons; a small number if we
take only the major figures in
each world civilization.”
– Randall Collins, Discovery of
Society

41. Influence in History
• Influence of each leader works an
average of 35 years
• Books and speeches don’t change
culture; adopting ideas by a
network of influencers
• Ideas must be institutionalized
• Money must support ideas which
makes the difference
Randall Collins
sociologist

42. Randall Collins
The Discovery of Society
“Size of a population is relatively unimportant—it
doesn’t take a large number of elites operating in
strategic ways to make world-historical changes in
the direction of a civilization.”

43. Collins says culture is defined by the
adoption of values and beliefs in 4
main competing networks
1. Military (Gov’t)
2. Economic (Business)
3. Political (Gov’t)
4. Key=Cultural – Education, Arts &
Entertainment, Media
– define values /beliefs

45. Focusing on the 7
mountains of influence is
not a theology. It’s a
strategy to focus on areas
that have the greatest
influence in shaping culture.

46. What was God’s
original intent for man?

47. Colossians 1:15-18
Who is the image of the invisible God, the firstborn of
every creature: For by him were all things created, that
are in heaven, and that are in earth, visible and
invisible, whether they be thrones, or dominions, or
principalities, or powers: all things were created by
him, and for him:

48. Genesis 1:28
Then God blessed them,
and God said to them, “Be
fruitful and multiply; fill
the earth and subdue it;
have dominion over the
fish of the sea, over the
birds of the air, and over
every living thing that
moves on the earth.”

49. Colossians 1:17
And He is before all things, and
by Him all things consist. And He
is the head of the body, the
church: who is the beginning, the
firstborn from the dead; that in all
things He might have the
preeminence.

50. Jesus, Lord Over All Domains of Influence
(not just Lord over salvation)
1. King of Kings – the Lord
of Justice
2. Jehovah Jireh – Lord of
Economics
3. Father, Lord of the
family
4. Creator God, Lord of
science & technology
5. Living Word, Lord of
communication
6. Potter, Lord of the arts
& beauty
7. Great Teacher, Lord of
education
8. The Great Physician,
who heals our
infirmities
Source: Landa Cope, Old Testament Template

51. Dominion
versus
Salt & Light
Some have criticized this strategy as dominion
theology or a new theology. It is neither. It’s
more about influence versus dominion.

52. “Youarethesaltoftheearth;
butifthesaltlosesitsflavor,
howshallitbeseasoned?”

53. The Church’s premise for
hundreds of years?
“If we just have more Christians in the
culture the culture will be transformed.”
Nigeria

54. The Gospel of Salvation impacts the soul,
but only indirectly redeems economic,
educational, political, or artistic institutions.
Winning souls is important.
However, that alone won’t change culture.
Must avoid “rapture theology”.

55. Martin Luther
“A gospel that does not deal
with the issues of the day is
not the gospel at all.”

56. Gospel of
the
Kingdom
Salvation
Culture
Economy
Community
Cities/Nations
Work
Disenfranchised
Gospel of

57. Lance Wallnau

58. God delegated His authority to us
to fulfill the Lord’s prayer on earth
until He returns.
“Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name,
your kingdom come, your will be done
on earth as it is in heaven.” Matt 6:9-10

59. SAMARITAN WOMAN
Culture change should be a
fruit, not a goal!

60. LOREN CUNNINGHAM
“Use your authority and
you will lose your
influence…

61. …use your influence and
you will gain authority.”
- Loren Cunningham

62. We are not talking about
• Controlling culture
• Manipulating people
• Dominating others
God gave everyone FREE WILL to choose the life they would
live. We are called to love God and love others through serving
others, then we will see change.

63. TRUTH #3:
Culture influence happens when problems are
solved through individual & collective influence.
Jesus

64. Culture doesn’t care who solves their
problem, they just want their problem solved.
Influence is a by-product of solving problems.

65. We are called to
use our influence
only to serve
others and to solve
problems. Just like
Jesus did!

66. Jesus used his spiritual authority,
but He never reached for the power.
People were drawn to Him when
they experienced His love and His power to
solve a problem in their life.

67. Our Lord’s primary obedience was to the will of
His Father, not to the needs of people— the
solving of problems in people’s lives was the
natural byproduct of His obedience to the Father.

68. Colossians 1:19-20
For it pleased the Father that in him should all fullness
dwell; And, having made peace through the blood of his
cross, by him to reconcile all things unto himself; by him, I
say, whether they be things in earth, or things in heaven.

69. “for the Son of Man has come
to seek and to save that which was lost.”
Luke 19:10

70. Delegated
Influence with God and influence with man

71. What is the % of leaders needed to
change a cultural mountain?

72. Culture is defined by only
3-5% of leaders who
operate at the top of a
cultural mountain.

73. Culture and the
Case Study
1987

74. Public
Media
A&E
Gov’t
Education

75. James Davison Hunter,
To Change the World
“Imagine a genuine ‘third great
awakening’ occurring in America, where
half of the population is converted to a
deep Christian faith. Unless this
awakening extended to envelop the
cultural gatekeepers, it would have
little effect on the character of the
symbols that are produced and
prevail in public and private culture.

76. James Davison Hunter,
To Change the World
“Without a fundamental restructuring of
the institutions of culture formation and
transmission in our society – the market,
government sponsored cultural
institutions, education at all levels,
advertising, entertainment, publishing,
and the news media, not to mention
church – revival would have a negligible
long-term effect on the reconstitution of
the culture.”

77. Family
Business
Church
Family
Media
Arts &
Ent.
Education
Government
No other
institution
convenes
influencers
who work
in the
cultural
mountains
weekly!

78. Let’s Summarize…
• Recognize the 7 areas that most influence culture and build a
strategy to impact them.
• Mountains are changed by a small number of elites collaborating
toward a common goal to solve a problem.
• Realize we are called to be salt and light, not to control or
dominate.

79. Let’s Summarize…
• It’s a strategy, not a theology
• 7M Strategy is not dominionism
– Focus on Gospel of the Kingdom combined w/ Gospel of Salvation
– Lord’s prayer
– Exercise our spiritual authority (not power) through God’s love, power and
servanthood

81. Post Comments and Questions

82. This week’s interview that will be sent to you as a download
The Chaos Candidate
Lance Wallnau