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- Christmas according to Luke (Part III): A World Upside Down - Seedbed
- Related Articles
- World Upside Down
- When We Pray, God Works
- About Jeff Doles
They have transformed the culture of nations that had gone far away from God, and changed their societies, their politics, and their history. This is especially true in the history of the United States. The Christian Gospel turned America upside down in the Great Awakening of the eighteenth century in the years that preceded our independence.
It happened again in the Second Great Awakening of the nineteenth century, and in the great metropolitan revivals of the decades between the Civil War and Prohibition. There is no debating this fact. Nor can it be denied that, from the Christian perspective, our nation again needs to be turned upside down. But can it be done? Will another awakening bring America back to God? Will there be another nation-changing Christian revival?
Christmas according to Luke (Part III): A World Upside Down - Seedbed
Is there anything Christians can do to bring such a thing to pass? The story of the establishment of the church at Thessalonica gives us the answer to this question. Paul was the chief evangelist of Christianity in the first century. The Acts of the Apostles gives much space to the record of his ministry around the known world, how he did what he did, and what the results of his work were.
The method of the first Christians was not political campaigning, armed insurrection, or secret conspiracy. It was not a moral crusade or a revolutionary movement. It was something different, and it is plain in the inspired accounts what method they followed: an effort that transformed their world. And we take comfort in the truth that in our times we also can partner with God to reap a great harvest of souls and impact the world in which we live for Christ. Paul, the preacher who came to Thessalonica with the message of Christ, was an evangelist, accompanied by an evangelistic team.
In the Greek New Testament it is clear what and who an evangelist was.
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To evangelize is to preach the gospel. As used in the books of the New Testament, evangelize speaks almost exclusively of the work of evangelists in making public proclamation of good news.
People of Roman times knew what an evangelist, in the generic sense, was. He was a proclaimer of good news who came to town to let everybody know about something really good that had happened. The adoption of the term by Christians referred to men who were gifted to make persuasive public proclamation of the Good News of Christ. Throughout his writings, Paul referred to his work as that of an evangelist, to evangelize check the Greek of Romans , First Corinthians , and Ephesians Watch him in the book of Acts, going from city to city, finding a venue to hold public meetings, and preaching the Gospel to the people, just as he did in Thessalonica.
Pastors are different from evangelists, both in their gifting and their ministry. But their work goes hand in hand. When Paul came to a city as an evangelist, he held public meetings, preached the Gospel of Christ, won people to the Lord, and formed a church. Then watch him in Acts he appointed certain men in the new congregation to serve as pastors. The pastoral office is also called that of an elder or a bishop overseer—check Acts and 28, and First Peter Ephesians 4 teaches us that the work of the evangelist and that of the pastor overlap.
One of their functions is to keep the work of spreading the Gospel in focus within the churches. Christianity at its best is represented powerfully by Spirit-filled evangelists, as well as locally by faithful pastors. And the leaders at the front lines of the battle to conquer the world were the evangelists look again at Luke , Acts , Second Corinthians , and Second Timothy This is one reason Christianity spread so fast in those early days. The ministry of the New Testament evangelist is greatly needed in our time. There are some men today who are called evangelists, but operate quite differently from the first evangelists.
Our world will not be reached with the Gospel, nor turned upside down, unless we have men who will live by faith and be dedicated to travelling everywhere to spread the Word. So what was missing? The problem was not him, the problem was me. What was that that I was missing? So what I did was look at the book of Acts, and what I found is that the apostles turned the world upside down with their preaching.
I looked and I saw that the people were amazed that unschooled, ordinary men were preaching this powerfully.
World Upside Down
We want to give ourselves full time to prayer and ministry of the word. MW: So how do we get there, what does it mean to preach in the power of the Holy Spirit? KE: Of course, every born again preacher has access to the power of the Holy Spirit. Every room has a light switch but do you turn it on? A tutor that will give them insight into the word that they could never have on their own.
So preaching with the Holy Spirit means allowing the Holy Spirit to illuminate the biblical text so that we see what the author intended to communicate. We need spiritual eyes to perceive spiritual truths so that we can communicate in a way that transforms lives, and only the Holy Spirit can give us that.
When We Pray, God Works
MW: So walk us through what differences this made in the way you do your sermon prep, your sermon delivery, and your post sermon analysis. He gave it in historical context, I need to know that. This is not a shortcut way from good work in the text. But once I get that idea then I start asking questions of the Holy Spirit.
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I think we need to give ourselves full time to prayer and ministry of the Word. We practice the presence of Christ. We give ourselves full time. When am I not doing sermon preparation? I want God to speak to me through the text and I want to speak to him about the text. Because if they knew how quickly it came, it just kind of gushes out. MW: I love the words conversation and dialogue. That you are really entering into a conversation with the triune God in the sermon prep process. He knew all the Greek, he knew all the Hebrew, he knew all the culture, and he knew all the history.
He thought that Jesus was the enemy and he could serve God best by killing Christians. Not too close. Without the Holy Spirit we cannot be led into all truth. What would be the indicators that the Holy Spirit is really at work? KE: Absolutely. The question is a good one but it presumes that the preaching is a one-way process. So the Holy Spirit needs to be present in the preacher but the Holy Spirit needs to be active in the listener.
MW: That is absolutely true. You know, Kent, I know you have a ministry that works with training and equipping pastors overseas in developing countries, and in some hard places. What are some of these preachers teaching you, and what can they teach us about preaching in the power of the Holy Spirit? KE: They teach me a great deal.
About Jeff Doles
I look at the preaching process as basically being in three stages. The first is in the text. We have to understand the biblical idea that God inspired. Secondly, I take that into what I call the closet and allow the Holy Spirit to talk with me. Then we come to delivery. So when I go overseas, most of these people have no skills in understanding the Bible and they know that. But what I am amazed at is that in those places the Holy Spirit has used their preaching enormously.
And I think, How are they able to do that? I was in Southern India once and I had a group of preachers and we were dialoguing. The first question they asked me was how often do preachers in North America fast? They fasted every single week because they knew they could not combat Hinduism in their own strength. They needed God, or the church would never grow. So when they communicate they communicate in a way that resonates with their culture. MW: So we can often be strong in exegesis but weak in utter dependence upon the Lord?
KE: Yeah, we sound just like the Pharisees. Knowledge and degrees alone are not enough.