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Becoming His Work By Hearing His Word: A Gospel Communication Plan For Bellwether Church
Full text linkThe goal of this study is to develop a communication plan for Bellwether Community Church. It is argued throughout the paper that this church, located in the Bible Belt, needs a comprehensive program to assist its congregation in living out the gospel through discipleship, apologetics, and evangelism. This program is implemented in Bellwether Community Church over a two–year timeframe.
This program emphasizes preaching as the primary means of communication and the overall plan focuses on the preaching series. However, preaching is only one means of the plan, as it also includes intentional equipping classes, small group curriculum, written devotions, and creative works of writing. All these forms emphasize an increased aptitude for the congregation in apologetics, evangelism, and discipleship. The goals for the church are to have a unity of communication over the course of the program, the congregation to be unified in its participation, individual participants to grow in the areas of apologetics, discipleship, and evangelism, and the church to grow in greater knowledge of Scripture and outreach into its local community.
Prior to the program’s launch, time is given for prayer and planning, engaging staff, leaders, and members in discussion, and preparing small group leaders to facilitate curriculum. Upon its launch, there is a centralized focus on the program’s teaching and consistent encouragement for the church to engage in all its aspects. There are assessments of the program where participants give feedback and church leaders can see its effectiveness. Upon completion, this overarching program can impact discipleship within any church community. It can also be modified for this church in its next season and offered to other churches for use
2019 Payton Lectures: The Self and Spirituality in Second Temple Judaism
Full text linkFuller Seminary instituted the Payton Lectures in 1948, providing for a series of divinity lectures by a notable scholar outside the regular faculty. The lectureship is named for Dr. John E. and Mrs. Eliza Payton, parents of the late Mrs. Grace Fuller, wife of seminary founder Charles E. Fuller.
For additional information, including respondent bios, parking information, and campus maps, visit Fuller.edu/PaytonLectures
다중언어교회 사역촉진을 위한 다중문화 정체성 인식 전환과 다중문화 리더십함양에 관한 연구: Hope International Church 한인회중을 중심으로
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Finding An Effective Style of Preaching for the Multicultural, Multigenerational Church in San Diego, California
Full text linkThe purpose of this project is to explore homiletical approaches to establish a sermon style that speaks to everyone at Grace Covenant Church (GCC), as multicultural congregation in the San Diego area that houses a diverse cultural, socioeconomic, and language context. This endeavor seeks to allow the good news of Christ to be expressed in fresh ways for disciples who have been walking with the Lord for many years as well as for new believers with little knowledge of Scripture, and those that are “unchurched” in order to create a culture of learning foundational biblical knowledge. This project is divided into three sections.
Part One describes the Spring Valley community and GCC. It explores the historical background and sociodemographic and cultural contexts of both. The discussion pays special attention to the missional purpose of Grace Covenant Church and competing sociodemographic, cultural, and generational factors, with special emphasis on Latinos.
Part Two examines theological principles for preaching as well as experimental styles of expounding the Word in effective ways that lead people into active and ever deepening relationship with God. These have been selected for use during the three-month preaching period. They will guide an overall examination of styles used in preaching.
Part Three presents academic and practical conclusions. Included are the sermon summaries and outlines, suggestions of the feedback team, and evaluations of specific homiletical styles. The project concludes with an assessment of what was learned and describes key findings, so other pastors in multicultural situations can benefit
Leader Development and Mission: Lessons from the Campus Outreach History
Full text linkThe goal of this study was to extract lessons about leader development from the history of Campus Outreach that will help churches and para-church organizations and expressions become more effective. This project will analyze the forty year history of Campus Outreach, a campus ministry started under the direction of the local church.
The history of Campus Outreach was analyzed in order to understand the ministry context. A unique feature of the Campus Outreach movement from its inception is the development of missional leaders as the aim of the organization. Additionally, the present organizational challenges for developing missional leaders was analyzed and recommendations was offered.
To gain the insights to make helpful recommendations, a theological review was made to analyze guiding principles the church of Jesus Christ has employed in developing missional leaders. Through reflecting on the historical ministry context and analyzing the theological insights, a Campus Outreach missional theology was presented.
Taking this missional theological summary, two surveys were used to identify the present effective practices as well as the deficiencies. The staff survey, both the written questionnaire and personal interviews, sought to engage present executive level Campus Outreach leaders and any staff who served for over ten years with the organization. An additional survey of over 1,750 alumni was also used to assess the health and effectiveness of leader development and to gain needed feedback.
Recommendations for future health and effectiveness for the movement was offered to local churches, campus ministries and other missional organizations. This project commends to missional leaders and organizations the importance of aligning the aims of leader development with the organizations structures and practices
Healing Ground: The Church as Compassionate Community through the Healing Process of Grief
Full text linkThe inevitability of death and the constant reconstruction of life required by loss subjects humanity to grief. The Church has too often failed to acknowledge and address this fact. Pastors are not trained adequately in grief and loss leaving them little to offer the bereaved. Pastors are forced to share platitudes and to abdicate their pastoral and teaching roles in the company of death and loss. Consequently, many bereaved persons feel isolated when support is most needed. Social support for the bereaved is vital. A compassionate presence providing comfort is often lacking.
This project is designed to provide training in contemporary grief understandings to pastors and invested lay persons for the purpose of creating compassionate communities of healing. Forest Lawn is uniquely positioned to provide this training due to a long history of active community engagement. This project also examines the lack of adequate and available training for pastors. The on-coming wave of the death of the Baby Boomers, the rapid increase in cremation, and the change in death rituals among this generation are further reasons to institute this project.
The project will provide a basis for appreciating the role and power of grief as a healing process. This will be shown by providing an awareness of the attachments human beings form and the threat to those attachments we face in the reality of death. Death and grief become the seed for the transformed life through the process of silence, lament and resurrection.
The training will be comprehensive; persons involved will be exposed to the most recent theories on grief, theological insights on death and spiritual growth, the varieties of grief expressions, strategies of bereavement care, a look at their own death awareness and strategies for their own self-care