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THEORY OF CHURCH GROWTH (제9강) ✝️✝️✝️ (영문)
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2019-12-05 01:10:41, 조회 : 1,796 |
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THEORY OF CHURCH GROWTH (제9강) ✝️✝️✝️ (영문)
Strategies for Church Growth
Until now, the principles of church growth in the divine and human aspects have been discussed in the light of the Scriptures. As a matter of fact, the principles and the phases of the growth of the church are inseparably related to each other like those of the living creature.
(1) Strategies for church growth have brought together many principles of evangelism (mission) and church revival (ministry) which have proved, through recent research and experience, to be practically effective in implementing the Great Commission (Wagner 1987, 15).
(2) Through research and experience good strategies for church growth could have been developed, but the problem is that the human strategies are apt to take over church growth more than the work of the Holy Spirit.
(3) Is church growth strategy really incompatible with the work of the Holy Spirit? Even though the principle of harmony between them is very simple, it is very hard for man to harmonize them because he has internal, incompatible dispositions, namely, the sinful nature and the desire of the Spirit (Gal. 5:17).
(4) \"For I have the desire to do what is good, but I cannot carry it out\" cried Paul the Apostle (Rom. 7:18).
(5) How does one cope with these factors? The answer is also found in the same Scripture. The solution for the problem is not according to human desire but the desire of the Spirit (Rom. 8:5).
(6) In a word, the priority of the Spirit has to be noted. Nevertheless, human strategy should not be disregarded entirely without reservation. Human strategy is the second avenue to be taken.
(7) Of course, as J. Herbert Kane said, \"The proponents of church growth, with few exception, have emphasized the human factors and all but overlooked the divine factors,\" the human factors must not be prior to the divine factors (Kane 1981, 212).
(8) Human strategy must absolutely depend upon the work of the Holy Spirit. Only when it depends upon the work of the Spirit can it be successful in the growth of the church. For this matter, Jesus Christ says that no one can come to me unless the Father who sent me draws him (John 6:44).
(9) God's strategy includes the use of the human strategy as the instrumentation for church growth. \"God's strategy for winning the world includes the use of disciples (instrumentation: the writer's comment) for multiplying ministry\" said Kent R. Hunter (Hunter 1983, 70). God is willing to use the human instrumentality. ⛪️⛪️⛪️
- To be continued
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