By Brian Kelly, Ph.D., Southeastern University

1. The Role of the Pentecostal Academy in the Formulation & Evaluation of Whole-life Discipleship & Missional Christianity By Brian Kelly, Ph.D., Southeastern University

2. Our Time Together 10 Minutes 12 Minutes 12 Minutes What I hope to accomplish in the next 90 minutes Introduction – A Practical Theology of Pentecostal Education Specific Description – Framing the Situation Reasonable Intentions – Evaluating the Outcome Feedback from Participants – Bringing People to Voice Developing Dialogue – Bringing Sources to Voice 16 Minutes 30 Minutes

3. The Presenter Brian M. Kelly, Ph.D. Trinity Bible College – Adjunct Instructor –1989-1993 Fuller Theological Seminary – M.A. in Biblical Studies, Ph.D. in Theology – 1993-1999 Bethany University – Associate Professor – 1999-2007 Southeastern University – Associate Professor – 2007 to present

4. 4 Phases of Dynamic Interaction in Practical Theology* Dilemma: What should Pentecostal Higher Ed. look like in order to facilitate missional capacity in its primary stakeholders? *Abridged from Don Browning’s A Fundamental Practical Theology, Augsburg Fortress.

5. Specific Description – a “thick description in the midst of concrete situations”* Pentecostal Higher Education Missional Capacity Primary Stakeholders *Browning, A Fundamental Practical Theology

6. Specific Description – a “thick description in the midst of concrete situations” AG Higher Education* • 19 Schools on the AG map • 360,000 students in the 7-12 grades • Intend to plant 4,000 new churches in next 10 years • *AG College News,Articles on Colleges and Universities

7. Specific Description – a “thick description in the midst of concrete situations”* AG Higher Education* • 57.4% increase in ministerial students in all multi-major AG schools (1990 to 2009) • 16% decrease in singular-major schools (Bible colleges) • *AG College News,Articles on Colleges and Universities

8. Specific Description – a “thick description in the midst of concrete situations” AG Churches* • 12.6% decline (1998-2008) in number of conversions reported”* • 14.2% decline in new churches opened • *Office of the AG Statistician,AG ACMR and Related U.S. Statistics

9. Specific Description – a “thick description in the midst of concrete situations”* Missional Capacity • Fanning into flame the “missional –incarnational impulse”* • Equipping every student with a missional skill-set *Alan Hirsch,The Forgotten Ways, Brazos Press.

11. The Missional – Incarnational Impulse Imbedding

12. Specific Description – a “thick description in the midst of concrete situations” Primary Stakeholders • Who ultimately are we answerable to? • Cold hard realities we are facing • Parents, students & economic viability

13. Developing Dialogue: Who is invited into the conversation? Triune God 4 Spheres of Influence Bringing People to Empowered Voice Assets & Challenges

14. Developing Dialogue: Who is invited into the conversation? Triune God • Role of Prayer? • How do we hear from the Spirit of God in our academies?

15. Four Spheres of Major Influence Voices that need to be heard How can we facilitate bringing everyone to voice and empowering that voice for real change in higher education in the Assemblies of God?

16. Potential Venues for Bringing Primary Stakeholders To Empowered Voice What would this look like in your institution? How realistic is it that this could happen?

17. Assets & Challenges Issues Endemic to Assembly of God Universities Assets to draw on Challenges We face • Mission – Spirit-led: • Educators • Students/Parents • Stakeholders • Alliance • Boards • Churches • Economic Viability • Identifying Key Stakeholders • Honoring Our Identity • Getting Ahead of the Curve

18. Reasonable Intentions: Possibilities for Change? APEST Paradigm for Leadership Hebrew Approach to Learning Schools of Integrative Ministry?

19. Reasonable Intentions: Possibilities for Change? APEST Paradigm for Leadership* • Theological Framework? * Abridged from Frost & Hirsch, The Shaping of Things to Come, Hendrickson Publishers.

20. 5-Fold Ascension Gifts for Spiritual Health Eph. 4:7-13 All at work in: the organization individuals

21. Reality today in Pentecostal Movement? Can we achieve maturity as long as this is the case?

22. Where are we today? *Donald McGavran, Effective Evangelism a Theological Mandate Missiologist Donald McGavran argued over 20 years ago that our seminaries and Bible Colleges were graduating pastors who were “theologically correct but evangelistically sterile.” For him the problem was the curriculum. “The curriculum formed between 1550 and 1950 is not the best curriculum for a tremendously changed world.”* An accent, click to edit the text inside.

23. Reasonable Intentions: Possibilities for Change? Hebrew Approach to Learning* • Action learning vs. the academy? * Hirsch, The Forgotten Ways

25. Reasonable Intentions: Possibilities for Change? Hebrew Approach to Learning* • False dichotomy between theory and praxis • Place for “think-tank” but not divorced from praxis * Hirsch, The Forgotten Ways

26. Reasonable Intentions: Possibilities for Change? How can we keep the best of the old Bible College training for ordained clergy & still build missional capacity into those called to serve home, academy & marketplace?

27. Reasonable Intentions: Possibilities for Change? Schools of Integrative Ministry? • Spirit- Led Faculty? • Gen. Ed. and Major Core Requirements • Pedagogy • Course Content • Sample Course Descriptions

28. Reasonable Intentions: Possibilities for Change? Schools of Integrative Ministry? • Spirit- Led Faculty? • Practicing Pentecostals • Engaged with the Lost • Active in local churches

29. Required Courses to Build Missional Capacity: Schools of Integrative Ministry? • Gen. Ed. and Major Core Requirements • Required courses that build missional capacity in students

30. Reasonable Intentions: Possibilities for Change? Schools of Integrative Ministry? • Pedagogy • E – Experiential • P - Participatory • I – Interactive • C– Communal* *Taken from Leonard I. Sweet, Soul Tsunami, Zondervan Publishing.

31. Reasonable Intentions: Possibilities for Change? Schools of Integrative Ministry? • Course Content • Tie action-oriented ILO’s to student outcomes • Recruit co-instructors from other spheres

32. Reasonable Intentions: Possibilities for Change? Schools of Integrative Ministry? • Sample Course Descriptions • Circumvent curriculum wars! • Collaborate on everything

33. Sensible Applications: Evaluating “fruit that will last” (Jn. 15: 16) Measurements we could use Accountability Resources New Dilemmas This chart utilizes Smart Art which is feature in PowerPoint 2007. If you wish to make charts like this and don’t have PPT 2007, we have provided the graphical elements to help you build this yourself. Here is the description of the chart. You may change or delete this text as you wish.

34. Sensible Applications: Evaluating “fruit that will last” (Jn. 15: 16) Measurements we could use: • Cognitive • Volitional • Behaviors

35. Sensible Applications: Evaluating “fruit that will last” (Jn. 15: 16) Measurements we could use: • More conversions? • More missional communities of faith?

36. Sensible Applications: Evaluating “fruit that will last” (Jn. 15: 16) Measurements we could use: • Natural Academy Development?

37. Growing and declining churches vary significantly in 8 quality areas adjectives The Research result Empowering Leadership Empowering Gift-oriented Ministry Gift-oriented Passionate Spirituality Passionate The key Functional Functional Structures Inspiring Worship Service Inspiring Holistic Holistic Small Groups Core Growth Values Need-oriented Need-oriented Evangelism Loving Relationships* Loving • * From , Christian A Schwarz, Color Your World with Natural Church Development, Church Smart Resources. 11

38. Growing & Declining Enrollment is linked to: • Building Missional Capacity in Students by Identifying & Nurturing Missional-Incarnational Impulses • Collaborative Campus-Wide Spirit-led Strategic – Decisioning • Scholarships that Encourage Life-long Learning in the Pentecostal Tradition • Faculty that are Credibly Committed to the Church, Home & Marketplace – beyond their academic pursuits • Centers for Life-Long Learning that Assure Value-Added (not only donor-related) Alumni Relations • Others that you can think of?

39. Sensible Applications: Evaluating “fruit that will last” (Jn. 15: 16) Accountability • Goals • Action-steps • Assessments

40. Sensible Applications: Evaluating “fruit that will last” (Jn. 15: 16) Resources for the process • Moving beyond “talking disease” • Priorities for change • Starting the conversation

41. Sensible Applications: Evaluating “fruit that will last” (Jn. 15: 16) New Dilemmas • Honoring the process • What if we don’t do this? This chart utilizes Smart Art which is feature in PowerPoint 2007. If you wish to make charts like this and don’t have PPT 2007, we have provided the graphical elements to help you build this yourself. Here is the description of the chart. You may change or delete this text as you wish.

42. What if we do?