by brian kelly, ph.d., southeastern university

The Role of the Pentecostal Academy in the Formulation & Evaluation of Whole-life

Discipleship & Missional Christianity

By Brian Kelly, Ph.D., Southeastern University

• Our Time TogetherWhat 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

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Developing Dialogue – Bringing Sources to Voice

• The Presenter Brian M. Kelly, Ph.D.

Trinity Bible College – Adjunct Instructor –1989-1993Fuller 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 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?

Specific Description

Definitions, Terms,

Nomenclature

DevelopingDialogue

Empowering Voices to

Speak

ReasonableIntentions

Plans, Proposals,

Policies

Sensible Application

s

Measures for Evaluation

*Abridged from Don Browning’s A Fundamental Practical Theology, Augsburg Fortress.

Specific Description – a “thick description in the midst of concrete situations”*

Pentecostal Higher Education

Missional Capacity

Primary StakeholdersSpecific

Description

Definitions, Terms,

Nomenclature

*Browning, A Fundamental Practical Theology

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


Definitions, Terms,

Nomenclature

*AG College News, Articles on Colleges and Universities


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)


Definitions, Terms,

Nomenclature

*AG College News, Articles on Colleges and Universities


AG Churches* 12.6% decline (1998-2008) in number of conversions reported”*

14.2% decline in new churches opened


Definitions, Terms,

Nomenclature

*Office of the AG Statistician, AG ACMR and Related U.S. Statistics


Missional Capacity Fanning into flame the “missional –incarnational impulse”*

Equipping every student with a missional skill-set


Definitions, Terms,

Nomenclature

*Alan Hirsch, The Forgotten Ways, Brazos Press.

Planting the Gospel in Missional Contexts

The Missional – Incarnational ImpulseImbedding

Going

Deeper in

Relation-ships

Going

Deeper in

Relation-ships

Going

Deeper in

Relation-ships

Going

Deeper in

Relation-ships

Deepening


Primary StakeholdersWho ultimately are we answerable to?

Cold hard realities we are facing

Parents, students & economic viability


Definitions, Terms,

Nomenclature

Developing Dialogue: Who is invited into the conversation?

Triune God

4 Spheres of Influence

Bringing People to Empowered Voice

Assets & Challenges

DevelopingDialogue


Speak

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?

DevelopingDialogue


Speak

Church

Home

Marketplace

Academy

How can we facilitate bringing everyone to voice and empowering that voice for real change in higher education in the Assemblies of God?

•Four Spheres of Major InfluenceVoices that need to be heard

Strategic PlanningLife-Long LearningCentersSympo-siums

Focus -GroupsAlumni SurveysOthers?

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?

ASSETS TO DRAW ON•Mission – Spirit-led:

• Educators• Students/Parents• Stakeholders

•Alliance•Boards•Churches

• Economic Viability• Identifying Key Stakeholders•Honoring Our Identity•Getting Ahead of the Curve

CHALLENGES WE FACE

Assets & ChallengesIssues Endemic to Assembly of God Universities

Reasonable Intentions: Possibilities for Change?

APEST Paradigm for Leadership

Hebrew Approach to Learning

Schools of Integrative Ministry?


Plans, Proposals,

Policies


APEST Paradigm for Leadership*

Theological Framework?ReasonableIntentions

Plans, Proposals,

Policies

* Abridged from Frost & Hirsch, The Shaping of Things to Come, Hendrickson Publishers.

Apostle

Prophet

EvangelistShepherd

Professor

All at work in: the organizationindividuals

5-Fold Ascension Gifts for Spiritual HealthEph. 4:7-13

Apostle

Prophet

EvangelistShepherd

Professor

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

Where are we today?

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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.”*

*Donald McGavran, Effective Evangelism a Theological Mandate


Hebrew Approach to Learning*

Action learning vs. the academy?


Plans, Proposals,

Policies

* Hirsch, The Forgotten Ways


Hebrew Approach to Learning*

False dichotomy between theory and praxis

Place for “think-tank” but not divorced from praxis


Plans, Proposals,

Policies

* Hirsch, The Forgotten Ways


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?


Plans, Proposals,

Policies

Reasonable Intentions: Possibilities for Change?Schools of Integrative Ministry?

Spirit- Led Faculty? Gen. Ed. and Major Core Requirements

Pedagogy Course Content Sample Course Descriptions


Plans, Proposals,

Policies



Spirit- Led Faculty? Practicing Pentecostals Engaged with the Lost Active in local churches


Plans, Proposals,

Policies

Required Courses to Build Missional Capacity: Schools of Integrative Ministry?

Gen. Ed. and Major Core Requirements

Required courses that build missional capacity in students


Plans, Proposals,

Policies

Reasonable Intentions: Possibilities for Change?Schools of Integrative Ministry?

Pedagogy E – Experiential P - Participatory I – Interactive C – Communal*


Plans, Proposals,

Policies

*Taken from Leonard I. Sweet, Soul Tsunami, Zondervan Publishing.



Course Content Tie action-oriented ILO’s to student outcomes

Recruit co-instructors from other spheres


Plans, Proposals,

Policies



Sample Course Descriptions

Circumvent curriculum wars!

Collaborate on everything


Plans, Proposals,

Policies

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Sensible Applications: Evaluating “fruit that will last” (Jn. 15: 16)

Measurements we could use

Accountability Resources New Dilemmas

Sensible Applications



Measurements we could use:

Cognitive Volitional Behaviors





More conversions?

More missional communities of faith?





Natural Academy Development? Sensible

Applications


Loving Relationships*

Need-oriented Evangelism

Holistic Small GroupsInspiring Worship Service

Core Growth Values

Empowering LeadershipGift-oriented MinistryPassionate SpiritualityFunctional Structures

EmpoweringGift-orientedPassionateFunctionalInspiringHolisticNeed-orientedLoving

Research result

The key

Growing and declining churches vary significantly in8 quality

areas

The

adjectives

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* From , Christian A Schwarz, Color Your World with Natural Church Development, Church Smart Resources.

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?

Growing & Declining Enrollment is linked to:


Accountability Goals Action-steps Assessments Sensible

Applications



Resources for the process Moving beyond “talking disease”

Priorities for change Starting the conversation



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New Dilemmas Honoring the process

What if we don’t do this?



What if we do?

by brian kelly, ph.d., southeastern university

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