fts-mc500 post for class 12/06/10

Greetings, this is the post for the final class of Church in Mission taught by Professor Bolger Fall 2010. I want to commend Professor Bolger for teaching such a wonderful class. He gave me a lot of insight on the history of the church, how the church split, why the church split and how we got so many denominations. He gave us opportunities to explore these different venues of the gospel and the visits, discussions, and readings truly opened my eyes to things I had many questions about. Thank you Professor Bolger, it was a wonderful class and I appreciate every bit of information you shared with us. You did an excellent job. God Bless you! The final class session met at the Reflectory at Fuller. We discussed different topics such as Fundamentalists, Evangelism, the new Emergence and the Facebook age. We discussed aspects of a dying church vs starting a new church. It was a wonderful session that was intimate with several students attending but not so many to make it too big a party. I enjoyed hearing the information that Professor Bolger had to share and would love to hear some more. God Bless you all and thank you for the experience. Amen.

fts-mc500 post for 12/01/10 class

Today in class we covered alot of information about the Pentecostal Church in Brazil. Pentecostal worship is mainly made up of liturgical dance, singing, praise, and preaching. God speaks through all these elements of worship. The Word has a lot of authority. Holy Spirit is welcome as speaking through everything. Alot of preaching is done through stories. There is an understanding of God speaking to us through the anointed against evil. The Pentecostal Christian Community is more for poor, majority of congregation is women, with preaching of stable family/home. Call men to live a particular way. There is the healing of addictions. Most often have strong leaders; Often men but sometimes women who have the power to speak authority into the lives of others. The Pentecostal Christian Mission is better jobs, bring faith, witness, victory over devil and tight communities.