Working Together with God to Shape the New Millennium

Description

This collection of presentations from the 1999 IFMA/EFMA/EMS Triennial Conference explores the incredibly ambitious purpose and challenging task of Working Together with God to Shape the New Millennium. Topics include Biblical Foundations for the New Millennium, Working Together Strategically, and Leadership Needed for the New Millennium.

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Philosophie et théologie
• Catholic Church
• Growth
• Assemblies of God
• Christian Church
• Orthodox

Informations

• Publié par: William Carey Publishing
• Date de parution: 01 juin 2000
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781645080039
• Langue: English

Extrait

Working Together with God to Shape the New Millennium
Opportunities and Limitations

Other titles in EMS Series
#1 Scripture and Strategy: The Use of the Bible in Postmodern Church and Mission , David J. Hesselgrave
#2 Christianity and Religions: A Biblical Theology of World Religions , Edward Rommen and Harold Netiand, Editors
#3 Spiritual Power and Missions: Raising the Issues , Edward Rommen, Editor (out of print)
#4 Missiology and the Social Sciences: Contributions, Cautions, and Conclusions , Edward Rommen and Gary Corwin, Editors
#5 The Holy Spirit and Mission Dynamics , C. Douglas McConnell, Editor
#6 Reaching the Resistant: Barriers and Bridges for Mission , J. Dudley Woodberry, Editor
#7 Teaching Them Obedience in All Things: Equipping for the 21st Century , Edgar J. Elliston, Editor

Working Together with God to Shape the New Millennium
Opportunities and Limitations
Kenneth B. Mulholland and Gary Corwin Editors
Evangelical Missiological Society Series #8


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EMS Series #8
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Working together with God to shape the new millennium: opportunities and limitations / Kenneth B. Mulholland and Gary Corwin, editors.
p. cm. -- (Evangelical Missiological Society series; #8) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-87808-382-0 (alk. paper)
1. Missions--Congresses. 2. Missions--Theory--Congresses. I. Mulholland, Kenneth B. II. Corwin, Gary, 1948. III. EFMA/IFMA Triennial Leadership Conference (1999: Virginia Beach, Va.) IV. Evangelical Missiological Society series: no. 8.
BV2061.W668 2000 266-dc21

Contents
Preface
Gary Corwin
Author Profiles
Biblical Foundations for the New Millennium
1. What God is Doing to Shape the New Millennium
Henry Blackaby
Context of the New Millennium
2. Setting the Scene for 2020: Shifting Missions into the Future Tense
Tom Sine
3. Global Theological Challenges
T.V Thomas
Working Together Theologically in the New Millennium
4. Opportunities and Limitations
Charles Van Engen
Response to Van Engen Regarding Opportunities and Limitations
John H. Orme
5. Working Together with Conciliar Groups
Charles Van Engen
6. On the Theological Possibility of Orthodox/Evangelical Cooperation in Mission
Edward Rommen
7. Theological Guidelines for Working Within a Roman Catholic Context
John Nyquist
Response to Van Engen, Rommen, and Nyquist on the Possibilities of Working Together Theologically in a Wider Way
James J. Stamoolis
Working Together Doxologically in the New Millennium
8. Calling an Army of Artists
Frank Fortunato
9. Contextualized Worship and Arts in World Evangelization
Byron Spradlin
10. What’s in the Middle? The Implications of Doxology for Missions in the Twenty-first Century
Dave Hall
Working Together Strategically in the New Millennium
11. Southern Baptists: Working Cooperatively to Reach the World
Avery T. Willis Jr.
12. Assembly of God Missions: Strategy on the Run
Gary B. McGee
13. AD2000 and Beyond: Toward a Conceptual Model
Luis Bush
Leadership Needed for the New Millennium
14. Challenging, Nurturing, and Forming Leaders for 2010
Leighton Ford
Epilogue
Kenneth B. Mulholland
End Notes

Preface
Gary Corwin
T he joint IFMA/EFMA/EMS Triennial Conference, held in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in September 1999, is the source for the articles and responses included in this volume. The authors represented are as varied and unique as the subjects upon which they write. Their contributions, however, coalesce around a challenging and highly important subject, though, as with any collection of conference articles, the reader should be reminded that the authors bring their own perspectives, styles of communication, and points of view.
The theme of that conference was “Working Together to Shape the New Millennium,” a challenging task revolving around an incredibly ambitious purpose. While the theme served well to communicate the focus and aspirations of that Conference, it left some of us uneasy. This was primarily for two reasons. First, it seemed a bit presumptuous to suggest that a few hundred mission agency leaders and mission professors had it within their grasp to shape anything so grand as a new millennium. That was a problem with the question of “Who?”
The second reason/problem had to do with the question of “What?” Were we really there to shape a new millennium, with all the political, economic, social, moral, and religious images which that thought conjures up? Or was our purpose somewhat less grandiose, if no less noble-namely, to explore how to work more closely together with one another and others in this new millennium, so that we could work more closely with God in accomplishing all that He has in mind.
I have since reconciled my own concerns over these matters in the process of preparing this book for publication. The question of Who? and What? are both solved by malting explicit in the book’s title what is either explicit or implicit in all the articles which it contains. Namely, that it is God who does the work, and that we are privileged to be co-laborers together with Him in all that He is doing. Furthermore, as co-laborers with Him, we are of necessity also co-laborers with all others who belong to Him. Many of our articles focus explicitly on the opportunities and limitations related to that glorious fact.
The volume is organized into six sections, containing fourteen chapters (two of which also include responses), in addition to the preface and epilogue written by the editors:
(1) Biblical Foundations for the New Millennium describes both the ways and the means that God is already using to shape the new millennium, and what it takes to partner with Him;
(2) The Context of the New Millennium makes plain both the worldview and the global theological challenges which must be faced;
(3) Working Together Theologically explores the opportunities and limitations that evangelicals must consider in working together with others who are identified with the Conciliar Movement, Orthodox Churches, or the Roman Catholic Church;
(4) Working Together Doxologically highlights the centrality of worship to the missions enterprise, and the role of artists in enhancing it;
(5) Working Together Strategically provides both practical models and striking examples of how effective mission can be carried forward; and
(6) Leadership Needed for the New Millennium points the way forward in a heart-warming fashion for developing and mentoring the new generations of leaders that the task requires.
While the work of each author has undergone revision to achieve more of a print style than an oral one, the editors have endeavored to maintain the passion, perspectives and content of each one.
Shaping a new millennium is no mean task. In fact, it’s not even a human one; though God for his own reasons, and out of His grace, invites us to join with Him in it. And working together is not always easy, even when we like each other. But this is the grand and glorious endeavor to which we are called, and we can take heart in knowing that even what is impossible with man, is possible with God.

Author Profiles
Henry Blackaby is the author of numerous books including the widely acclaimed, Experiencing God . He speaks widely and provides consultative leadership on prayer for revival and spiritual awakening.
Luis Bush was born in Argentina and served as International Director for the AD2000 and Beyond Movement until that group’s recent planned sunset. He is a widely sought speaker and previously served as President of Partners International.
Gary Corwin is currently Associate Editor of EMQ, having also served as its Editor, and has been both Deputy Executive Director and an Executive Vice President of EMS. He has served with SIM in Ghana and as International Research and Education Coordinator, and is now a Special Representative.
Leighton Ford is a widely known evangelist and President of Leighton Ford Ministries, which specializes in developing young Christian leaders worldwide. He has written numerous books including Sandy, A Heart for God , and Transforming Leadership .
Frank Fortunato is the International Music Director for Operation Mobilization. He has also served as Coordinator of the AD2000 Movement Worship and Arts Network.
Dave Hall is founder of Worship to the Nations (WTN), a ministry of the international movement of PIONEERS which empowers worship- arts leaders to glorify God by serving existing PIONEERS teams, and by discipling worship-arts leaders among the unreached.
Gary B. McGee is Professor of Church History and Pentecostal Studies at the Assemblies of God Theological Seminary in Springfield, Missouri. He is an ordained minister and has consulted widely with the Division of Foreign Missions for The General Council of the Assemblies of God.
Kenneth B. Mulholland has a long history of leadership in the Evangelical Missiological Society, and currently serves as its President. He is Dean of the Columbia Biblical Seminary and School of Missions, having served previously as a missionary in Latin America.
John Nyquist is Associate Professor of Mission and Evangelism at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, and also served for many years with Campus Crusade for Christ.
John Orme is Executive Director