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

I. NINE CHALLENGES

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

2. COMMUNICATIONS l 700 MILLION COMPUTERS l INTERNET l

3. EDUCATION l WORLD CAMPUSES l l CHAT ROOMS l INTERNET CLASSES

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

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

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

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

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

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

2. NINE CHARISMATA

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

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

APPALACHIAN CONFERENCE RETREAT MARCH 1-2, 2002

NINE PENTECOSTAL CHARISMATIC CONTRIBUTIONS

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

BARRETT’S COMMENTS IN THE YEAR 2000 in century of the holy spirit BY VINSON SYNAN

THERE ARE THREE WAVES OF RENEWAL 1. PENTECOSTAL 63,000, CHARISMATIC 175,000, NEO-CHARISMATIC 295,000,000 TOTAL 523,000,000

CATHOLIC CHARISMATICS WORLDWIDE IN ,000,000

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

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

PENTECOSTAL/CHARISMATIC WORLDWIDE ADHERENTS 16 MILLION 27 MILLION 50 MILLION 96 MILLION 247 MILLION 463,000, ,000,000

2025 l CHRISTIANS 3,058,229,000 l CHARISMATICS 1,140,000,000 l % OF CHRISTIANS 37.28%

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

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

“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”

FROM 1 PENTECOSTAL BELIEVER ON JANUARY 1, 1901 TO 530,000,000 ON JANUARY 1, 2001

THE GREATEST REVIVAL IN THE PAST 1000 YEARS OF CHRISTIAN HISTORY

AND THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING !