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5. How does the progressive work of the Spirit and the “full consummation” of the baptism relate to an instant experience? ii. Ecclesiology 1. What about the 4-­‐5-­‐6 fold offices given to the church? 2. A/G credential categories are hard to find in the Bible a. Credentialed minister b. License to preach c. Ordained minister 3. What is the value of a credential? iii. Missiology 1. Are missionaries apostles? If not, what are they? 2. Who are the leaders: apostle, elder? 3. Are humanitarian aid workers deacons? iv. Education 1. The young are confused about Pentecostal theology and practice 2. The young are abandoned when they graduate from the youth group, picked up again if they get missionary appointment, but in between, are on their own 3. Worship and youth activities have replaced Christian education 4. Level of Bible illiteracy is disturbing 5. What will the world be like in 2020? 6. Winning postmoderns is much like winning Muslims: language, culture, values, background 7. What kind of person will it take to be effective? 8. What kind of preparation will it take? 9. What about quality versus quantity? 10. What do we learn from Stalingrad and Bin Laden? 11. What are the relationships between Master’s Commissions, Church Based Bible Institutes, District Schools of Ministry, and the Residential Colleges? 12. Cost factors a. It costs about $100,000.00 for a missionary to learn a language b. It costs about $24,000.00, total, for a needy student with merit to get a college education c. Missionary support pays for language school d. Ministry students pay for their own education and often graduate with debt e. Credential track scholarship fund Rob Bell is not the Antichrist – Probably. Copyright – Gordon L. Anderson 5/1/11 Page 4

3. Movements and people a. Missional model of the Church i. Missio dei means sent of God ii. All Christians are sent -­‐ apostolic iii. Critiques and replace the old fashioned “attractional” model as too narrow, closed, clubby, judgmental, isolated, irrelevant, ineffective iv. Go into the world and relate to it v. Be like the world? vi. Church is life, not services vii. Services may be counterproductive viii. The Gospel and Our Culture Network: An organization that provides resources on how to enter into and change culture ix. Leaders: Tim Keller, Ed Stetzer, Alan Hirsch x. Resource: Lesslie Newbigin b. Emerging Church i. 9 practices 1. Identify with the life of Jesus 2. Transform secular world 3. Communal living 4. Welcome the stranger 5. Serve with generosity 6. Participate as producers 7. Create as created beings 8. Lead as a body 9. Take part in spiritual activities ii. Not Emergent or Emergent Village iii. Disillusioned with modernism iv. Critical of modern church, traditionalism v. Non-­‐judgmental vi. Move from religion to spirituality vii. Leaders 1. Dan Kimball: Vintage Faith Church, Santa Cruz, CA 2. Mark Driscoll: Mars Hill Church, Ballard, WA c. Emergent Church, Emergent Village i. More creative/radical than Emerging Church ii. Mad, sarcastic iii. Accept Christianity but not Christendom iv. Sarcastic toward modern church, evangelicalism, traditionalism v. Post-­‐modern literary theory (McClaren taught English) vi. Postmodern worldview and hermeneutic vii. Emphasis on contextualization viii. Accept “both/and” Rob Bell is not the Antichrist – Probably. Copyright – Gordon L. Anderson 5/1/11 Page 5

iii. Exclusive/non-­‐exclusive name of Jesus: He has many names iv. Hell is a state of being, not a place in time and space v. Mocks the wrath of God as something that should be reported to the authorities vi. A God of wrath who creates hell is unbelievable and unbearable vii. New version of 20 th century Protestant liberalism viii. Resources 1. D. A. Carson, Becoming Conversant with the Emerging Church 2. Kevin DeYoung, God is Still Holy and What You Learned in Sunday School Is Still True, the gospelcoalition.org/blogs/kevindeyoung 5. Lessons and Challenges a. The new movements and leaders are to be taken seriously b. These new ideas are a tsunami, not a blip on the radar screen c. This plays well with a huge “new choir” that wants to hear these songs d. The young who lead and make up these movements are asking new questions in new ways e. Old answers answered in old ways are ignored f. Fundamentalistic answers and attitudes are dead g. Biblical authority and orthodoxy are at stake h. Some of the new leaders and followers are nothing more than redesigned liberals trying to look Christian – they are irretrievable i. Most of the new leaders and followers are very smart, and have a great desire to be truly Christian j. Most of the new leaders and followers have true Christian values i. Love God and your neighbor ii. Connect with the lost iii. Meet needs iv. Build the Kingdom k. We need to listen to the critics – they may be the only ones telling us what we need to hear i. Church as a club ii. Church as an escape from the world, evangelism, missions, church planting, being salt and light l. The church must envision the year 2020 i. What will it be like? ii. What must we do to be effective? iii. How can we preach the gospel in a neo-­‐pagan world? iv. How do we keep our own young in the faith? v. How do we prepare the next generation to live and lead in the years ahead? Rob Bell is not the Antichrist – Probably. Copyright – Gordon L. Anderson 5/1/11 Page 7