JAESON MA REVOLUTIONARY PLAN TO PLANT MISSIONAL COMMUNITIESPublished by Regal Books From Gospel Light Ventura, California, U.S.A. Printed in the US.A. Regal Books is 2 ministry of Gospel Light, a Christian publisher dedicated to serving the local church. We believe God’s vision for Gospel Light is to provide church leaders with biblical, user-friendly materials chat will help them evangelize, disciple and minister to children, youth and families. Ic is our prayer that this Regal book will help you discover biblical truth for your own life and help you meet the needs of others. May God richly bless you For a free catalog of resources from Regal Books/Gospel Light, please call your Christian supplier or contact us at 1-800-4-GOSPEL or www.regalbooks.com. All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken from the New King James Version. Copyright © 1979, 1980, 1982 by Thomas Nelson, Inc, Used by permission. All rights reserved. Other versions used are K]V—King James Version. Authorized King James Version. NASB-Scripture taken from the New American Standard Bible, © 1960, 1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977 by The Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. NIV-Scripture taken from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984 by International Bible Society. Used by permission of Zondervan Publishing House. All rights reserved. © 2007 Jaeson Ma. All rights reserved. Map on page 266 is used by permission of Dr. Thomas Wang, President, Great Com- mission Center International, 848 Stewart Drive, Suite 200, Sunnyvale, CA 94085. Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Ma, Jaeson. The blueprint : a revolutionary plan to plant missional communities on campus / Jaeson Ma. p.cm. ISBN 978-0-8307-4408-4 (trade paper) 1. Church work with students. 2. College students—Religious life. 3. Universities and colleges—Religion. 4, Missions—Theory. I. Title. BV4447.M225 2007 259°.24—de22 2007000037 123456789 10/ 1009 08 07 Rights for publishing this book in other languages are contracted by Gospel Light World- wide, the international nonprofit ministry of Gospel Light. Gospel Light Worldwide also provides publishing and technical assistance to international publishers dedicated to producing Sunday School and Vacation Bible School curricula and books in the lan- guages of the world. For additional information, visit www gospellightworldwide.org; write ro Gospel Light Worldwide, P.O. Box 3875, Ventura, CA 93006; or send an e-mail to info@gospellightworldwide.org.CHAPTER ONE REPENTANCE PRAYER Truly, these times of ignorance God overlooked, but now commands all men everywhere to repent. ACTS 17:30 I grew up in church but did not like it. Personally, I thought church was lame and nothing but a bunch of rules and regulations. Every Sunday morning, my mom would drag me down the driveway and force me to get into the car to go to our conservative Chinese Baptist church in East San Jose. She would say, “Jaeson, as long as you are my son, you go to church!” So I did. I went as long as I had to go. 1 would always tell my mom, “You just wait till I curn 18! PI never come back to church again!” You see, I did not have a problem with Jesus. I had a problem with religion. To me, church was a system of dos and don'ts. When I was 13, I left church and planned to never come back. I told God, my mother and the old Chinese Baptist church, “Peace out.” I decided that I would party hard, get drunk, get high, get rich or die trying, and when I was 85 years old on my death bed, I would repent and give my life back to Jesus. That was my plan. But God had another plan. “For I know the plans I have for you,” declares the Lorp, “plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future” (Jer. 29:11, NIV). I grew up to be an Asian mother’s nightmare. I wanted to live my own life and did not care what my parents thought of me. There