THE NEW SPRINGTIME FROM A PENTECOSTAL PERSPECTIVE VINSON SYNAN WAXAHACHIE, TEXAS NOVEMBER 1, 2001

1. THE NEW SPRINGTIME FROM A PENTECOSTAL PERSPECTIVEVINSON SYNANWAXAHACHIE, TEXASNOVEMBER 1, 2001

2. I.NINE CHALLENGES

3. 1. URBANIZATION • 79 - “SUPERCITIES” (4 MILLION +) (59 IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES) • 433 - “MEGACITIES” (1-4 MILLION) • 6.1 BILLION WORLD POPULATION

4. 2. COMMUNICATIONS • 700 MILLION COMPUTERS • INTERNET • E-MAIL

5. 3. EDUCATION • WORLD CAMPUSES • E-MAIL • CHAT ROOMS • INTERNET CLASSES

6. 4. POST INDUSTRIALISM • 25% OF MANKIND WORK IN POST-INDUSTRIAL ECONOMIES • KNOWLEDGE AND INFORMATION REPLACES CAPITAL AS SOCIETY’S MOST IMPORTANT RESOURCE

7. 5. CHANGES IN DEMOGRAPHICS • WORLD POPULATION 6.1 BILLION • 30.7 UNDER 15 YEARS OF AGE • 26.1 MEDIAN AGE • 63.9 LIFE EXPECTANCY

8. 6. EFFECTS ON THE ECO-SYSTEM • 30% OF ARABLE LAND LOST IN LAST 20 YEARS • 10% OF ANIMAL AND PLANT SPECIES EXTINCT IN LAST 20 YEARS DUE TO MANKIND • GLOBAL WARMING

9. 7. NUCLEAR EXPANSION • 35 NATIONS NOW HAVE NUCLEAR CAPABILITIES • NEW NATIONS INCLUDE: ARGENTINA, EGYPT, ISRAEL, KUWAIT, LIBYA, SAUDI ARABIA, TURKEY, NORTH KOREA, ZAIRE • SOME OF THESE ARE CONSIDERED “ROGUE STATES”

10. 8. STATUS OF WORLD RELIGIONS • 34% CHRISTIAN • 83.4% ARE BEING EVANGELIZED • 2,800 LANGUAGES WITH PRINTED SCRIPTURES

11. 9. RISE OF PENTECOSTALS AND CHARISMATICS • 26% OF ALL CHRISTIANS ARE P/C • 12% OF ROMAN CATHOLICS • 10% OF ANGLICANS • 65% OF ALL PROTESTANTS • 40% OF ALL MISSIONARIES • 25% OF CATHOLIC MISSIONARIES • 50% OF ALL PROTESTANT MISSIONARIES

12. 2.NINE CHARISMATA

13. I CORINTHIANS 12: 4-11 • WORD OF WISDOM • WORD OF KNOWLEDGE • FAITH • GIFTS OF HEALING • WORKING OF MIRACLES • PROPHECY • DISCERNING OF SPIRITS • DIFFERENT KINDS OF TONGUES • THE INTERPRETATION OF TONGUES

14. THE GIFTS AND WORLD EVANGELIZATION • ALL GIFTS EDIFY AND ARE PROFITABLE BUT • TONGUES AND INTERPRETATION • GIFTS OF HEALING • SIGNS AND WONDERS HAVE LED MILLIONS TO CHRIST

15. APPALACHIAN CONFERENCE RETREATMARCH 1-2, 2002

16. NINE PENTECOSTAL CHARISMATIC CONTRIBUTIONS

17. 1. RESTORATION OF THE CHARISMATA • BY FAR THE MOST IMPORTANT CONTRIBUTION TO CHRISTIANITY • TONGUES AND HEALING MOST EMPHASIZED • PETER WAGNER’S 24 GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT

18. 2. RENEWAL OF EXPRESSIVE WORSHIP • CONCERT PRAYER • RAISING OF HANDS • MASSIVE LOUD PRAISE • SHOUTING OF PRAISE • SPIRITUAL DANCING • SINGING IN THE SPIRIT

19. 3. A LOVE OF SCRIPTURE • PENTECOSTALISM BASED ON SCRIPTURES • POPE PAUL VI - “MORE ASSIDIOUS READING OF SCRIPTURE” • “THE WORD OF GOD FOR TODAY” • “REVELATION KNOWLEDGE ?” • ARE PROPHECIES ON SAME LEVEL AS SCRIPTURE? (RHEMA & LOGOS)

20. 4. AGGRESSIVE USE OF THE MEDIA • PRINTED MEDIA (MAGAZINES) • RADIO - 1920’S THROUGH 1990’S • TELEVISION - 1950’S • ORAL ROBERTS • JIM BAKKER • JIMMY SWAGGART • PAT ROBERTSON • YONGGI CHO

21. 5. NEW FORMS OF CHURCH STRUCTURE • HOME CHURCHES • STORE FRONT CHURCHES • CELL GROUPS (WESLEY TO CHO) • COVENANT COMMUNITIES • DISCIPLESHIP CONTROVERSY • POST-DENOMINATIONAL ERA? NEW APOSTOLIC CHURCHES? (PETER WAGNER - 1996)

22. 6. CULTURAL ADAPTABILITY • ADOPTION OF INDIGENOUS FORMS • FLEXIBILITY OF CULTURES • AMERICAN BLACK CHURCH • KOREAN CULTURE • AFRICA • LATIN AMERICA

23. 7. THEOLOGICAL FLEXIBILITY • WESLEYAN CONTROVERSIES • BAPTISTIC PENTECOSTALS • PRESBYTERIAN PENTECOSTALS • LUTHERAN PENTECOSTALS • ANGLICAN PENTECOSTALS • CATHOLIC PENTECOSTALS

24. 8. CHURCH GROWTH • FASTEST GROWING CHURCHES IN THE WORLD • CHURCH PLANTING • CELL CHURCHES • MEGA-CHURCHES

25. 9. A VISION FOR WORLD EVANGELIZATION • PRESENCE EVANGELISM • PROCLAMATION EVANGELISM • PERSUESION EVANGELISM • POWER ENCOUNTER EVANGELISM • BIBLICAL METHODS • MODERN METHODS • PENTECOSTAL CHARISMATIC MISSIONS TODAY

26. BARRETT’S COMMENTS IN THE YEAR 2000in century of the holy spiritBYVINSON SYNAN

27. THERE ARE THREE WAVES OF RENEWAL1. PENTECOSTAL 63,000,000 2. CHARISMATIC 175,000,0003. NEO-CHARISMATIC 295,000,000TOTAL 523,000,000

28. CATHOLIC CHARISMATICS WORLDWIDE IN 2000 116,000,000

29. THESE ARE SEPARATE WAVES BUT ONE SINGLE TIDEDENOMINATIONS:PENTECOSTAL 740CHARISMATIC 6,530NEO-CHARISMATIC 18,810TOTAL 26,080

30. THERE HAVE BEEN 795,000,000PENTECOSTAL AND CHARISMATIC BELIEVERS (LIVING AND DEAD) SINCE 1901

31. PENTECOSTAL/CHARISMATICWORLDWIDE ADHERENTS 247 MILLION 27 MILLION 16 MILLION 50 MILLION 96 MILLION .623,000,000 463,000,000

32. 2025 • CHRISTIANS 3,058,229,000 • CHARISMATICS 1,140,000,000 • % OF CHRISTIANS 37.28%

33. THESE HAVE BEEN “THE MOST HARASSED, PERSECUTED,SUFFERING AND MARTYRED THAN PERHAPS ANY OTHER CHRISTIAN TRADITION IN RECENT HISTORY”

34. TOTAL INCOME OF PENTECOSTALS AND CHARISMATICS:1970 $ 126 BILLION 2000 $ 1,550 BILLION

35. “WITH PENTECOSTALS AND CHARISMATICS NOW ACTIVE IN 80% OF THE WORLD’S 3,300 LARGE METROPOLISES… A NEW ERA IN WORLD MISSIONS WOULD CLEARLY APPEAR TO BE UNDERWAY”

36. FROM 1 PENTECOSTAL BELIEVER ON JANUARY 1, 1901TO530,000,000ON JANUARY 1, 2001

37. THE GREATEST REVIVAL IN THE PAST 1000 YEARS OF CHRISTIAN HISTORY

38. AND THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING !