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

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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

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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

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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

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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