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Lesson OneIntroduction to the Course3 Activities
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Lesson TwoHistory of the Miraculous/Sign Gifts3 Activities
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Lesson ThreeJohn Wesley and Charles Finney3 Activities
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Lesson FourHistorical Roots3 Activities
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Lesson FiveHoliness Theories of Sanctification2 Activities
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Lesson SixFragmentation of the Holiness Movement3 Activities
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Lesson SevenBirth of Classical Pentecostalism3 Activities
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Lesson EightAzusa Street Revivals3 Activities
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Lesson NineThe Spread of Pentecostalism3 Activities
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Lesson TenThe Formation of the Assemblies of God3 Activities
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Lesson Eleven"Jesus Only" or Unitarian Pentecostalism3 Activities
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Lesson TwelveAmy McPherson and Pentecostalism3 Activities
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Lesson ThirteenThe Prosperity of Classical Pentecostalism3 Activities
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Lesson FourteenThe Transition to Renewalism3 Activities
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Lesson FifteenThe Spread of Charismatic Renewalism3 Activities
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Lesson SixteenKey Figures in the Renewalist Movement3 Activities
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Lesson SeventeenThe Theology of Charismatic Renewalism3 Activities
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Lesson EighteenThe Roman Catholic Charismatic Movement3 Activities
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Lesson NineteenThe Theology of Catholic Renewalism3 Activities
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Lesson TwentyThe Prosperity/Curses Movements3 Activities
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Lesson Twenty-OneThe Vineyard Movement - Part I3 Activities
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Lesson Twenty-TwoThe Vineyard Movement - Part II3 Activities
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Lesson Twenty-ThreeKansas City Fellowship/Prophecy Movement3 Activities
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Lesson Twenty-FourThe Toronto/Laughing Exercise Movement3 Activities
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Course Wrap-UpCourse Completion1 Activity1 Assessment
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Discussion Questions
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Explain two charismatic doctrines that distinguish them from other Christian belief systems.
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The doctrines that distinguish Charismatic Groups from non-charismatic focus on Baptism, one or two, and the active gifts of the Spirit.
Charismatic groups propose that there is an initial baptism of the Spirit at the Salvation event and a second baptism sometime after that where an individual receives various gifts of the Spirit. The events are sometimes referred to as Baptism “in” the Spirit and Baptism “with” the Spirit.
All Christians hold in common the belief that there remain gifts of the Spirit that are operative in a person’s life. They disagree on what these gifts are and when they are received. -
Distinguish Christians beliefs are not centered around salvation but rather how we experience or walk or avail ourselves to God. One charismatic doctrine difference is questions of Baptism. Questions to include is there one Baptism or two. Is one Baptized in the Spirit as well as with the Spirit or by the Spirit.
A second difference is about the gifts of the Spirit. More specifically did the gifts that see that the Holy Spirit gave in the 1st century to His church all or some continue or did all cease. The disagreements among Christians comes into question which Gifts still exist. The charismatic persuasion such as Pentecostals believe that all the gifts in the Bible including the gift of Glossolalia still exist. Less Charismatics for example might believe that prophecy and apostleship did indeed cease.
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Baptism is one of the charismatic doctrines that distinguish between the other Christian beliefs. Some believe that there is only one baptism, whereas those in the Charismatic movement believe in two baptisms, the water baptism and the Spiritual baptism that come with enlightenment. We receive the Spirit in two increments—at salvation for redemption and subsequently for power and strength. They say that Spirit baptism is an experience where a believer is empowered for witness and Christian service.
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Name seven areas of general disagreement among Christians.
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1. The differences starts with mainline denominations and independent groups of Christians
2. sacramental versus non sacramental
3. Church government -very hierarchical structure (rule by bishops, local session or by presbytery-republican form of government versus government or rule by the people of the congregation or within the church
4. Great cleavage (expressions of writings and/or insights) of John Calvin versus Jacob Arminius.
5. covenantal theology versus -(great covenant with Abraham and subsequent covenants and the unity of the Bible verus dispensationalism (and the discontinuity in varying degrees of the Old Testament.
6.Eschatological views- amillennial, postmillennial and premillennial.
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The areas of general disagreement among the Christian lie in the flavor of Christianity that they prescribe to. There are Lutherans, the Presbyterians, the Baptists, the Episcopalians and the Methodists. There are also the independent groups of Christians such as the Bible church movement or the independent churches. A second division that you might have would be between the sacramental expressions of Christianity and the non-sacramental expressions. A sacramental emphasis within Christianity would be, for instance, among Episcopalians or Lutherans or Presbyterians, who in varying degrees see that the grace of God is mediated through the sacraments of baptism and the Eucharist. And there are non-sacramental groups as well: a Baptist, for instance, and many Pentecostals de-emphasize the efficacy of baptism and the Lord’s Table and generally see them as expressions or memorials, more than anything else. Episcopalians, for example, tend to emphasize a very hierarchical structure and a rule by bishops. Presbyterians emphasize rule by the local session or by presbytery; it’s more of a republican form of government. Baptists, believe that the locus of authority in church government does not reside in hierarchy, as among Episcopalians and some Methodists, but it resides among the people; power rests in the people.
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What is the general outline of the history of the Charismatic Movements?
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Roots – 1800 – John Wesley and Charles G Finney American counter part.
Pentecostalism/Charismatic Movement –1830-1840-Methodism to Holiness Movement -Birth as a child of Methodism-Phoebe Palmer -This movement was an attempt to return strength and purity to Methodism. (as least in some’s opinions)-
1867- 1890 National Holiness Movements and two works of grace. Results in Methodist departing from Methodism
1901 – 1960 -Classical Pentecostal Movement
19th Century -The general outline of the Charismatic movement first came upon the scene in America in the late and was birth in great Azusa revivals of 1906 to 1909. It was called the Apostolic Faith Movement. Negatively referred to the Tongues Movement and now referred today classical Pentecostalism. Birthing such churches as the Church of God in Christ.1961-1970-Neo Pentecostalism Movement – Developed from a cacophony of movements in the post World War II era. Referred in instruction as charismatic renewals. Identified rector , Dennis Bennett of Van Nuys of California. Penetrated mainline dominations to include the great Roman Catholic Church (1960’s)
1980-1990–Restoration Movement-Birth during this movement various charismatic expressions such as the Vineyard Movement of John Wimber, (most prolific the Kansas City Fellowship) and sometimes called the Kansas City Prophets or the Prophets movement. Also during this era Five-fold Ministry of Ephesians (chapter4) and the Toronto Revival.
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The charismatic movement first came upon the scene in America in the late nineteenth century and was born in the great Azusa revivals of 1906 to 1909, the first expression was called the Apostolic Faith Movement, derogatorily called the tongues movement. But what was born as a movement in those early days is called now today classical Pentecostalism. These are your traditional Pentecostals, Assemblies of God, for instance, Church of God in Christ, who by later definitions of charismatics tended to be rigid, tended to be precise without much innuendo. So the classical Pentecostal movement was born probably about 1901 and was the form of charismatic expression through about 1960. In 1960, a new type of Pentecostalism was born, commonly called neo-Pentecostalism because it was new. Born from a cacophony of movements in the post-World World II era. It recognized that for a variety of reasons the classical Pentecostal movement was not pushing forward enough and that there needed to be a rebirth. And so you have charismatic renewalism born in about 1960 or 1959, usually identified with a rector, Dennis Bennett, in Van Nuys, California. And the renewalist movement had two prongs to it or has: It penetrated the mainline traditional denominations in this country and others, and it penetrated beginning in the late 1960s the great Roman Catholic Church. Unlike classical Pentecostalism, charismatic renewalism was a move back into the churches that are traditional mainline. They were not so much Pentecostal with an emphasis on Acts 2 so much as they were broader and rightly called the renewal movement or charismatic movement. And then in the 1980s, what could be called the restoration movement. And this is a group of varieties of charismatic expressions such as the Vineyard movement of John Wimber—his most prolific, the Kansas City Fellowship and sometimes called the Kansas City Prophets or the Prophets’ movement.