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DiscipleshipDiscipleship
and Transformativeand Transformative Revival Revival .
Viv GriggUrban Leadership Foundation
Encarnação Alliance of Urban Poor Movement Leaders
APCOD, March, 2006
The full text may be found at http://urbanleaders.org/Viv_Grigg/PhD/index.html
Revival …
The Falling of the Holy Spirit on GroupsThe Falling of the Holy Spirit on Groups
(Acts 2; 4:31-35)
A Simple Lukan Definition
7 Lukan Revival Principles…
The Falling of the Holy Spirit on Groups.1. Seeking God in Prayer and Unity2. Initiating Manifestation of the Divine Presence3. Holiness, Repentance (A Response that Begins
Discipleship)• Spirit of Fire• Cleansing Spirit
4. Preaching, Conversion & Public Repentance (Ezra 10:2)5. Manifestations of Power6. Transformed Social and Economic Relationships
– Social Discipleship– Economic Discipleship
7. Overwhelmed by Love – a Transformed Psychology
Transformative Revival…Transformative Revival…
Revivals progress to consummation
in a phase of transformation
that involves cultural engagement,
with the possibilities of cultural revitalisation
if there is a response of public repentance.
8 Common Dynamics Occurring at Each Level of Expansion of Revival Movements
1. Seeking God in Prayer & Unity
2. Empowering: Presence of God Falling on Groups
3. Proclamation
4. Repentant Response
5. Evidences:Power, Love, Signs, Proclamation, Unity
6. Theological Change & Information Flow
7. Leadership Emergence
8. Small Group Multiplication
CulturalRevival
StructuralRevival
Small Group Revival
PersonalRevival
Scale of Impact
A Progression of Goals in the City
Transformation
of City Structuresand Culture
Revival: People'sMovements
Pioneering Evangelism
Churchplanting
10
20
3%
0.5
Concentration on
Concentration on
Concentration on
Concentrated
% Christian
As the church grows within the city the focus of theology, and action needs to expand to evangelism plus church growthplus revival plus transformation of city structures and culture.
1. Kingdom Redemption
2. Churches: Kingdom Community
3. Revival: Kingdom Movements
4. Transformative Revival:Kingdom PrinciplesChanging the SocialThe Economic, the Political, the Legal, the Environmental
Expanding Phases of Revival Movements(Common Web of Belief)
Cultural RenewalStructural
RenewalSmall Confessional
GroupsPersonal Renewal
The Presence of GodFalling on Groups
Primary paradigm Waiting on God & Divine Encounter
Multiplying Small Groups
Renewal of Local Church Leadership
Engagement with Social Issues
Level of Repentance
Personal Repentance
Confession, Healing, Character Transformation
Denominational Renewal
Disenculturation from the Culture
Creative Outcomes New Theological Paradigms
New Community Life and Economic Sharing
New Denominations
Public Repentance
Leadership Emergence
Prophetic Initiation Emerging Lay Leaders
Five Leadership Gifts Released in the Churches
RepentancePowerLoveUnityProclamation
Factors in Growth & Declineof the New Zealand Revival Movement (1965-89)
Decline• Loss of prayer movement• Central cadre splintered along
denominational lines• Loss of information flow• Increasing pastoral control• Loss of small groups• Church growth theologies• Failure of institutions to reform• Failure to move to socio-
economic theology• Cultural incompatibility:
dependence on American models
Desperation and Prayer
Central Cadre
Information Flow
Release of Lay Leadership
Multiplication of Small Confessional Groups
From Edges to Denom Centre
Missiological Obedience
Growth
Revival Movements 8 Principles of Expansion
1. Groups = > Movements (Sociology of revival)2. Evangelicalism is the fruit of synergistic overlapping revival movements
across the continents and ages– Web movements– People movements– Sustained by discipling movements
3. Questions of Timing 4. Suddenly5. Multivariate Periodicity within Grander Continuity6. Quiescent Periods are as much part of revival
• Can solidify into doctrinal and denominational forms• Or Can be a phase of outgrowth into societal transformation, preceding next wave
7. Power Shift to Entrepreneurs – release of laity8. Shifts people out of established religion
Transformative Revival…Transformative Revival…
Revivals progress to consummation
in a phase of transformation
that involves cultural engagement,
with the possibilities of cultural revitalisation
if there is a response of public repentance.
… … and Discipleship?and Discipleship?MultichoiceMultichoice: The call to make disciples of all : The call to make disciples of all
nations, Is it:nations, Is it: to disciple individuals?to disciple individuals?to create discipling movements among peoples?to create discipling movements among peoples?to disciple the nations? to disciple the nations?
Transformative Revival gives us a framework to Transformative Revival gives us a framework to progress through the first and second types of progress through the first and second types of discipling, then to obey the Lord in accomplishing discipling, then to obey the Lord in accomplishing the third – the emphasis of this consultationthe third – the emphasis of this consultation
Expanding Phases of Transformative Revival(Proposed Web of Belief)
The Presence of GodFalling on Groups
Primary paradigm
Waiting on God Outpouring of Spirit
Multiplying Small Groups
Renewal of Local Church Leadership
Engagement with Social Issues
Response by the Culture
Level of Repentance
Individual & Small Group Repentance
Individual & Large Group Repentance
Confession, Healing, Character Transformation
Denominational Renewal
Disenculturation from the Culture
Public Repentance
Creative Outcomes
Desperation, Earnest Seeking
New Theological Paradigms
New Community Life and Economic Sharing
New Denominations
Creation of Creative Minorities
New Societal Structures
Leadership Emergence
Unity Prophetic Initiation
Emerging Lay Leaders
Five Leadership Gifts Released in the Churches
Cultural Prophets and Apostles in Societal Leadership
Response by Societal Leadership
RepentancePowerLoveUnityProclamation
5. Cultural Revitalization4. Cultural
Renewal3.Structural Renewal2. Small
Confessional Groups1. Personal
RenewalPreconditions
Brokenness
Unity, Waiting
Principles of Citywide Transformative Revival1. Public Grief-Anger: One of the evidences of a movement being Spirit-filled
is grief-anger, when biblical ethics are violated in the public arena.2. Increased Love: Transformative Revival within extensive sectors of a city
increases love and unity in the public square. This leads to two corollaries:– Consensus Seeking: Transformative Revival unfolds a divine sensitivity
to others, greatly enhancing an environment for truth and consensus seeking.
– Reconciliation: Revivals move peoples towards reconciliation, both racial and ecumenical.
3. Synergy: Citywide revival movements occur when a synergy develops between web movements in a number of ethnic, racial or social sectors, so that each contributes to the others at crucial points.
4. Empowerment: The empowerment processes of revival produce entrepreneurs. The biblical terminology for the primary giftings in such people is prophetic and apostolic.
5. Secular Location of the Apostolate: Entrepreneurs released in revival create new Christian organisations influencing the secular and new structures within secular careers, as well as new churches.
GOD
MANAGING THE CREATED ORDER
GOD
KINGDOMSOCIAL
RELATIONSHIPS
SPIRITUAL
DISCIPLESHIP
ECONOMIC
DISCIPLESHIP
RULES OVERHUMANITY
WHO ARE TO RULE AS HISVICE-REGENTS
RULES OVER HUMANITY
WHO ARE TO BE THEIR NEIGHBOURS'
KEEPERSIN EQUALITY, BROTHERHOOD,
SISTERHOOD AND JUSTICE
What is the Kingdom of God?
The Kingdom is God’s RuleBringing Redemption of HumanityAnd Restoration of Creation
56 Steps: Progressions in Generating
Discipling Movements in
Each Sector of Society 6.Small Group Structures
5.Issues, Forums, Events4.Institutional Base
3. Leader & Cadre2. Vision & Values1.Kingdom of God Principles
Business
Sports
Education
Politics
EthnicLeadership
Health
The Pooretc
Law
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7b. Cultural Transformation
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7. Small Groups6. Public Debate5. Goals4. Infrastructure3. Cadre2. Vision & Values1. Theology
Estimates of Engagement With Societal IssuesAuckland Pentecostals and Evangelicals, 2000
Sector 1:Businessmen Theologians?
We do theology in action
Creating a new businessculture
Transmitting this to newgenerations
Public Forums
• Get the issues of ethics into the public arena– Training modules on business ethics (Maarten)
• Businesses for Social Responsibility – leader now elected as mayor of city (Dick Hubbard)– Famous for taking his whole staff for a retreat to the island
of Tonga.
• Business Roundtable – richest 200 (Wyn)– 3 legs - democracy, capitalism and morality
Sector 2:Reconciliation as Beginning of
Revival (Luke 4:18-31) .
• The Brokenness of the Cross is the Centre of Revival
• No reconciliation without asking forgiveness
• No reconciliation without restitution
• No reconciliation without inviting the other to a meal.
• When you reach out your hand it may be rejected
Sector 3: Repentance: Reconnecting to the Environment
• From dust we came, to dust we return
• The soul cannot respond to God independent of its environment– e.g. death of Maori elders– AFC Wallace – four responses to
cultural dislocation• Anomie, gangs, redefinition of the
mazeways, assimilation• All covenants in Scriptures
(except one) are given in terms of the land.
• When people are reconnected to the land, there is an immediate spiritual responsiveness– e.g. land rights in Manila
Colossians 1:17,20He is before all things
And in him all things hold together…
…and through him to reconcile to himself all things,
Whether things on earth or on heaven,
By making peace through his blood,
Shed on the cross.He is the integrator of the cities and nations
Our response in sustained discipleship can turn public repentance into cultural revitalisation that reintegrates cultures