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Holy Hearts, Transformed Lives, and a Missional Mindset

Holy Hearts, Transformed Lives, and a Missional Mindset . What It Takes to Reach Postmodern Youth (& Adults) with the Transforming Message of Christian Holiness PALCON 2010. Rev. Matt Price, Ph.D. Chair, Christian Ministry Dept, School of Theology, MVNU PALCON 2010. Resources .

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Holy Hearts, Transformed Lives, and a Missional Mindset

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  1. Holy Hearts, Transformed Lives, and a Missional Mindset What It Takes to Reach Postmodern Youth (& Adults) with the Transforming Message of Christian HolinessPALCON 2010 Rev. Matt Price, Ph.D. Chair, Christian Ministry Dept, School of Theology, MVNUPALCON 2010

  2. Resources • Primal Teen by Barbara Strauch • When Kids Hurt by Chap Clark • Called to Be Holy by John Oswalt

  3. Resources • God in Search of Man by Abraham Heschel • Shaping of Things to Come by Frost & Hirsch • Wired for Preteens

  4. What is the brain?

  5. What is the brain? • Brain song

  6. Excuberance Three Explosive Moments of Neuron Growth

  7. Prefrontal Cortex

  8. Prefrontal Cortex = Heart? Hebrew, lev; Greek, kardia “inner person in all capacities but especially intellect and choice” “Sphere of God’s Action in Us” -- WT Purkiser, These Earthen Vessels

  9. Prefrontal Cortex = Heart? Goal of education in society Instinct to decision making to survival

  10. Prefrontal Cortex = Heart? Goal of discipleship in the church in culture Decision making  right living  wisdom Name a situation that today’s teens deal with that you did not

  11. Prefrontal Cortex = Heart? Adolescence is a “psychological crystallization” • Plan ahead • Think things thru • Resist impulse • Learn to practice What is best for us

  12. Prefrontal Cortex = Parents? Examples: Thirteen (2003) and from Real Life “I think she just someone to tell her to stop”

  13. Prefrontal Cortex = Adults • Teens  sense abandonment  need someone • “Surrogate problem solvers” • Construct scaffolding • Spiritual “Gandalf”

  14. Prefrontal Cortex = Adults “You must have the courage to go with them to a place that neither you nor they have ever been.” Vincent Donovan, Jesuit missionary in E. Africa

  15. Scriptural Holiness in Postmodern Cultural Context Roman Catholic = Belong Protestant Reformers = Believe Evangelical Revival = Believe & Belong

  16. Scriptural Holiness in a Postmodern Cultural Context Holiness Movement = Believe & Behave Emerging Movement = Belong & Believe Missional Church (missio Dei) = Belong & Believe & Be-Like (Naz!)

  17. Scriptural Holiness TaMiM LeV SHaLeM teleios

  18. OT & Christian Perfection TaMiM Genesis 6:9 Noah Genesis 17:1->Abraham Deuteronomy 18:13You 2 Samuel 22:33, David sings, “God . . . makes my way perfect [tamim].” Same as 2 Samuel 22:31, “As for God, his way is perfect.” =Lev 19:2, Matt. 5:48

  19. OT & Christian Perfection What about David’s sin? Response: Ps. 51David confessed “Perfection is marked by unblemished devotion and obedience that is not necessarily perfect in performance.” --John Oswalt

  20. OT & Christian Perfection LeVSHaLeM David’s prayer for Solomon 1 Chron. 28:9, 29:19 “wholehearted devotion”

  21. OT & Christian Perfection LeVSHaLeM James 1:8 “double-minded” esp. 6-8: lack of trust, commitment to one ideal, no rudder, no direction “A person with a perfect heart has a new set of attitudes and inclinations [to obey rather than to disobey]” --John Oswalt

  22. OT & Christian Perfection LeVSHaLeM “God wants a life totally given over to Him.” --John Oswalt

  23. NT & Christian Perfection • “complete, finished, perfect” “life and behavior [that] lacks nothing of that which could justly be expected of a follower of Christ.” John Oswalt • translates “tamim” in LXX with amemphomai: “without blame” teleios

  24. NT & Christian Perfection Both terms are used in 1 Thessalonians 5:23-24 “May God himself, the God of peace, sanctify you through and through [oloteleios]. May your whole spirit, soul and body be kept blameless [amemphomai] . . . The one who calls you is faithful and he will do it.” teleios & amemphomai

  25. NT & Christian Perfection Why should we ask God for something that cannot happen? “It is possible to experience an unreserved love for God and self-forgetful love for others.” John Oswalt

  26. Trajectory of Transformed Lives The first work of grace allows us to see God for Who He is, & the second work of grace allows us to see ourselves as God sees us.

  27. Trajectory of Transformed Lives the threshold where we enter into the fullness of life in Christ— Like a doorway in an earthquake: too dangerous to stay inside as things tumble down while too awe-struck to step outside the old life.

  28. Trajectory of Transformed Lives Scriptural holiness is sanctification through thresholds in a trajectory. “Sanctification is all that God does in us and through us to make us into the image and likeness of His Son” – David Cubie This is accomplished by purity of heart & maturity in life

  29. Trajectory of Transformed Lives “There is a need for purity, not only for purity of heart, which is . . .the work of the moment, but also for purification of the whole person, which is the work of a lifetime.” Cubie again

  30. Trajectory of Transformed Lives Purity of intention (work of a moment—threshold) Maturity of character (work of a lifetime—trajectory)

  31. Trajectory of Transformed Lives “There is a need for purity, not only for purity of heart, which is . . .the work of the moment, but also for purification of the whole person, which is the work of a lifetime.” Cubie again

  32. “love excluding sin” John Wesley Displacement theory of holiness more loveless sin

  33. Original sin  “bent toward sinning Martin Luther • Perfect love  gives us all a God-ward trajectory, “kavanah”

  34. Kavanah is the “direction to God and requires the involvement and redirection of the whole person.” Abraham Heschel, God in Search of Man • “To be inwardly and outwardly devoted to God; all devoted in heart and life.” John Wesley, Plain Account

  35. In the sanctifying work, We are cleansed (Acts 15:9; Matthew 5:6-8) and empowered (Luke 24:48-49; Acts 1:8) That makes us believable witnesses(John 17:20-21)

  36. YellowGreen Space Bluepersonal/interior missional space  other/exterior

  37. Who are we going to become? “Without holiness and the presence of Him who dwells only in holy hearts the church is soon a conquered church driveling for show— God’s holy people are neither players for the world’s amusement nor caterers to the world’s taste.“ PhineasBresee

  38. Stand in the Gap or Stand ‘n Gape

  39. Stand in the Gap • Graced Optimist • Live Your Ethics • Intervene • Empower

  40. P.L.A.N. • Pick a Fruit • Listen with your life • Activate Your Faith • Nurture Someone Else

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