 Good morning everyone. Let's just open in prayer and then we will go into class today. Would someone be willing to pray for us? To give us your spirit of understanding, to give us your spirit of revelation, to give us your wisdom and help us to understand, help us to also remember our Lord Father and also Lord help us a lot Father, how to implement them in our lives. Lord we ask you a lot Father to help us, not to get distracted but help us a lot Father to be in one accord a lot Father, to watch our teaching us and help us to focus a lot Father. We just submit everything into your hands, we submit a man to your hands a lot Father and you speak to us a lot Father and you teach us with your spirit in Jesus now we pray. Amen. Thank you. So yeah I think the duty for your reflection paper was last week. If you all have not yet submitted it for your reflection paper the personal reflection was Saturday. So if you have not yet submitted it please make sure to submit the paper and then with your final paper if you'll have any questions. So one question was about the originality check that is just to benefit you to help you kind of check because one of the things I'm grading on is to make sure that you've done the work yourself. You're not just copied from a website and pasted it and submitting that. So the original originality check will check your sources and if your content is just copied and pasted it will highlight whatever is from an outside source. So if you were not able to check it it's fine it's for your benefit to be able to check it but it's not required. You know if your work was original so that's all. If you are using outside sources then you just have to mention the at the end of the paper mention the sources that you used just make a list of sources used. Yeah I think for your next paper I've given you all that. Did I give you all that option? No I okay I don't think this one. No you don't really need to reference any outside sources even for this one but if you do then that's the way to do it to mention that you've used another source. So yeah let's go. I just wanted to let you know so we've caught up with whatever where we should be in our schedule and so I won't need to post an extra video for us to catch up on anything. So I won't there won't be any video for y'all to watch. We'll just try and keep up with the content in class itself. The final paper okay how to do it okay. So your final paper basically chapter 8 kind of gives a summary of what happens in a revival. What are the things that are seen? What is the heart of the person who like if they want to be using a revival? What kind of heart do they have? How have they been spiritually prepared to be used by God? So I wanted just a summary of all those it's all in points. So I just need the main points. You don't need to explain the points too much or anything just the main points. And then look at another revival. Look at either the revival you presented on or a revival that we looked at last week. That chapter 5 I think I mentioned right yeah chapter 5 has more details on a few revivals. So you can take one of those revivals or the revival you presented on and look at those points that I mentioned chapter 8 and kind of compare and see what were some of those things that chapter 8 talks about that were seen in this revival. That's basically it. Yeah so say for example okay let me just open chapter 8. Okay so chapter 8 talks about pursuing God. So when people pursue God they that is one of the ways through which revival is sparked. Or again then there's just like different verses your heart condition. So a heart that is humble, a heart that is hungry, a heart that is passionate and persistent. Some of the things that it's talking about in order for you to prepare yourself to be used in or to be a carrier of revival. So if we look at these main points and then you look at say you're looking at John Wesley. Did you see in your as you were presenting on John Wesley. Something that revealed that he had that kind of heart of humility, a heart that was passionate. Was he pursuing God personally. All of those things. So to talk about that. Or if you're looking at one of the ones from chapter 5 so the layman's prayer revival. We see that people started to seek God and there was regular prayer happening so they were pursuing God in that way. So to just take these points and then look at it in whichever revival you are looking at. So you can either do John Wesley or look at one of the revivals from chapter 5. Yeah just the main points everything is in it's all highlighted in bold that chapter. So just those main bold points you can decide how detailed you want to get. I haven't given a word limit. It doesn't have to be long. But you can decide depending on how much you feel you need to say. For one question isn't it. It may be the minimum I would say is more important that you cover all the main points. So make sure that you mentioned all the main points from chapter 8. That is important and then that you've answered the question fully so you you've also looked at that revival and kind of highlighted which points were seen in that revival. So yeah for this paper I'm more interested in you answering the question thoroughly. So I didn't give a word limit because some people may depending on how much detail you give maybe longer. But the length of the paper is not important just that you've answered the question. Any questions from those online on the assignment. Okay we'll go into today's content so we're starting with chapter 6 in your textbook which is the restoration of the church. I just have some of the main points shared on the PowerPoint not too much detail but so if someone can read for us Lamentations 521 we'll be looking at a few scriptures today so I'll just ask you all to open and read Lamentations 521. Lamentations 521. Turn us back to you. Oh Lord and we will be restored renew our days as of old. Okay so this is just a verse to talk about this this aspect of restoration within the church so turning back to the Lord. Turning back to truths that have been forgotten and then seeing renewal that is reflective of what was once in the in God's presence. Now we are taking this specifically within the church so why we looked at the Book of Acts was that's where we saw the Holy Spirit coming in power. We saw what God did in that time and that is the kind of restoration we want to see the Holy Spirit moving that way in the church and to see renewal within the church at present. So that we are more reflective of that church in the Book of Acts. So usually this process starts with the reformation. Reformation is a returning to truth. So when we look at the reformers that that actually played a big role in the church, whether it's Martin Luther, or it is Calvin, it was a restoration to scriptural truth. So they started to preach about things that were in the Bible that were not being followed in the church and so they were calling the church back to scriptural truth. So reformation is that that restoration to truth and when we see truth being restored within the church, then there is transformation that happens within the church. And the church becomes a place that is prepared for God to move. So we talk about new wineskin. So being people who are prepared and ready for the new wine that God wants to pour out and then pour out through the church into the world as well. And then through that restoration to the new wineskin, we are also restored in our pursuit of God that we start to seek after God with the new zeal and new passion to see God move in our midst for God to have more of a powerful presence and impact in the church and through the church. And then the last is to see the church impacting the world. Okay, so we see God moving powerfully within the church and then the church then goes out and impacts the world. So those are the four steps in revival that we're looking at. First is returning to the truth. So that's the reformation. The second is being made a new wineskin prepared for that wine that God wants to pour out the new thing that God wants to do in our midst. Pursuing God in a new way and then impacting the world. So if someone can open Ephesians 4 13 and 14. So we all come to the unity of the faith and of the knowledge of the Son of God to a perfect man to the measure of the state, a stature of the fullness of Christ that we should no longer be children passed to and through and carried about with every wind of doctrine by the trickery of men in the cunning craftiness of deceitful plotting. Yeah, so we in Ephesians 4 it's talking about the apostles, the prophets, the teachers, the pastors, being people who equip the saints till we reach this place of maturity in Christ to a fuller understanding, a fuller reflection of the fullness of Christ. So this is what we have seen in the church happen as we've looked at these revivals starting with the reformation. So in the dark ages, there was almost like we'd forgotten so much that the church had experienced earlier was forgotten in the dark ages. And so in the reformation, it was a restoring to that previous understanding of who God is of how the Holy Spirit moves. So we have your list of different things that have been restored to the church since then. Starting with the reformation salvation by grace through faith, right, rather than salvation through our works through our through acts of whether it is charity or through through acts of penance or whatever different ways in which the church had started to seek forgiveness. In the reformation, there was an emphasis on salvation by grace through faith that that is the only way to salvation. Another thing that was restored is water baptism. So if we look back at the at the early church that is the church in ads, there were children being baptized because whole households were coming to faith in Christ. But but this continued to be practiced in the church. The problem was that people were being baptized into faith as children, but were not continuing in the church were not continuing in faith. So the understanding of what baptism is was lost that it is something that we do when we ourselves believe. And so this water baptism for the believer was restored to the church as something that when you are mature enough to receive Christ as your savior, and you are coming to this decision that you want to follow Christ, then you get baptized. So then you become a part of the church. You can't be part of the church or you can't take baptism without having that experience or understanding. So that is one thing. Then another was sanctification and holy living. So we see through the holiness movement that there was a restoration of understanding of the importance of holiness of heart and holiness of life. As believers that it's not only about following rules, not only about legalistic teaching from scripture, it is about a life that is transformed understanding and welcoming the work in ministry of the spirit. So this we see post the holiness movement where they were started to be through the great awakenings, the Holy Spirit, more evidence of the Holy Spirit at work, initially mostly with people coming to the Lord. So people being saved, people repenting of their sins, people within the church as well coming to that point of salvation. And then we see baptism, the Holy Spirit, gifts of the Holy Spirit as a gradual move from this place of conviction. We then start to see more of these kinds of signs within the church when the Holy Spirit was moving. Then growing in the knowledge of God's Word, talking about victorious Christian living, so a lot more teaching on that has been restored to the church. The role and function of the five-fold offices, we look at that more in detail, but the apostle, the prophet, the teacher, the pastor being the offices that were restored to the church. And then the equipping of saints, so recognizing that every believer is a minister and so that division between the leaders in the church or the ministers in the church and the actual lay people within the church has been broken down a lot compared to what it was hundreds of years ago. So starting with the Reformation where there was a huge divide between the clergy and the laity. So that is the first point and the second is restoration in wine skin. So this is where the church itself is prepared to receive the new move that God wants to pour out. So can someone read Matthew 9.17 for us? Nor do they put new wine into old wine skins or else the wine skins break. The wine is spilled and the wine skins are ruined, but they put new wine into new wine skins and both are preserved. Okay, so again, when we're referring to wine skin, it's just the container into which the wine is poured and the container from which wine is poured out, right? So this talks about outward things that have changed in the church, the way worship is done, the way structures within the church have been set up, or the way the hierarchy within the leadership is set up. All of those things are things that have changed through these revivals, through these reformations. And the point of changing those things is to enable the move of God in that. So to be better carriers of God's move. So a few of these things are church governance, church structure and the methods that were used. Right, we see before there was a lot of liturgy in use in the church. Now, a lot of churches, especially in the charismatic movement or in the Pentecost movement, there's less use of liturgy. There's much more of just how is the Holy Spirit leading and much more of free worship in the services. Church governance whereas, especially in the dark ages, there was more established the Pope, the priests, all of those things, all of that has been broken down over the last hundreds of years. And then methods that were used in terms of how preaching was done, a lot more open field preaching. There were times, like during John Wesley's time, it was considered shameful to preach in an open field. You had to preach within a church. So all of these things, methods changing so that God could move, God could do what he wanted to do through the church. Restoration of the five-fold offices. So we have a long list of different people who have kind of taken their place in this restoration. So we see in Ephesians 4, 11 and 12, someone can just read that for us. Ephesians 4, 11 and 12. And he himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists and some pastors and teachers for the equipping of the saints, for the work of ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ. Yes, so these five-fold offices were some things that we didn't see at all after the early church, after acts and a few centuries after that. A lot of those roles, especially with the apostles, the prophets, those roles were kind of lost in the church. So starting with the 1950s, there was a gradual restoration of these five-fold offices. With the understanding that those people in those positions are there to equip the believers so that believers can be ministers. So it's not that these people have these positions and they are going to be the ones who minister. It's that they are going to equip believers to be ministers. So in the 1950s, the evangelists will just look quickly through that list. There's Catherine Kalman, William Branham, A. Allen, Lester Sumerill, Jaco, Oral Roberts, Billy Graham, Trance Hunter, T. L. and Daisy Osburn, D. G. S. Denakren, Renad Bonke, Benny Hinn, Randy Clark. So these are just a few examples. There's not to say that this list is a complete list and there are no others. It's just a few people who were part of this move of the restoration of evangelists who started to take the gospel out and do these huge gospel meetings where not only were they preaching gospel but they were also seeing signs, wonders, miracles accompanying that preaching of the gospel. Let me see the restoration of the pastor and teacher. This happened in the 1960s and 70s. So a few examples are Kenneth Hagan Sr., Derek Prince, Bill Johnson. Then we see the prophet being restored around the 1980s. Again, Kenneth Hagan Sr., Bill Hammond and then D. G. S. Denakren as people who kind of filled that prophet role. In the 1990s, we saw apostles being raised up. So Bill Hammond, Bill Johnson, Randy Clark are a few examples. Now, when we talk about apostles, it's different from the first 12, the founding apostles of the church or the 12 apostles that followed Christ. But it's people who function in very pioneering roles within the church, taking the church to new levels of understanding of who God is and growing the church in those new understandings. So some of the other things we've seen in this time is that there's greater unity across denominational lines. So even though there were churches that didn't believe in the Holy Spirit, in the move of the Holy Spirit in our present day, we see in revivals that those very people experienced the Holy Spirit in their midst and they couldn't deny then that it was the Holy Spirit moving because they saw lives transformed, they saw people coming to Christ. So revivals cross denominational lines, which is a really powerful thing. It brings greater unity to the body of Christ across denominations as well. And we more fully reach this in John 1721. It says that they may all be one as you, Father, and me, and I in you, that they also may be one in us, that the world may believe that you sent me. So that is the goal in that unity of the body of Christ, that it is a witness to the world of who Christ is. So some of the movements that made an impact in the church, being that wine skin through which God was able to move and pour out new wine, there's just a list here we'll go through. So 1900, the Pentecostal Movement. Here, we see the baptism of the Holy Spirit and praying in tongues as two of the big things that happened through the Pentecostal Movement. And some of the churches that were birthed through that is the Assemblies of God, the Church of God. In 1940, there was a later reign movement. And this is where they talked about the five-fold offices being restored. And that all believers could manifest the gifts of the Spirit. So we saw that in this later reign movement that started in Canada. 1970 to 1990 was the word of faith movement. So this was where people started to declare the word and believe God would fulfill his word, whether it came in the form of healing or in the form of faith, just faith, using faith to speak the word and believe that God would fulfill that. Establishing of our identity in Christ, understanding what it means to walk in prosperity in accordance with God's word, right? So that God desires prosperity for his people. 1960 to 1970 was the charismatic movement. So whereas in the Pentecostal Movement, there was baptism of the Holy Spirit and tongues, the charismatic movement saw more of the other gifts of the Spirit starting to be experienced, starting to be expressed within the church. 1970 to 1980 was the Jesus movement. Here there was a much greater emphasis on encountering Christ personally. So there was a lot less concern about how people came to church or the kinds of people who were coming to church. It was much more about people personally encountering Christ and experiencing the transformation of the Holy Spirit. 1970 to even the present day, there was a change in the way worship was done. We talked about this earlier also with the hippie movement, right? So that had a huge impact on how worship was done within the church. So some of the bands that came in at that time were the Maranatha, Singers, Integrity, Vineyard, Hillsong, Jesus Culture. So that really moved from a very formal way of worship to worship that is heartfelt, worship that comes from people's experiences, worship that expects for God to move through those songs, for the Holy Spirit to move through those songs. So yeah, it has impacted worship to the present day church. 1980 to 2000 was the third wave movement where there was much more power evangelism that was seen. That is where signs, wonders, miracles were accompanying evangelism. So one of the leaders was used powerfully this time is John Wimber who was used within the Vineyard church. So a lot of seeing healing, seeing miracles along with taking the gospel to the lost. 1980, even to present day, a lot of prayer and intercession and emphasis on prayer and intercession. So people who have been key people in this is Rhys Howells and his son Samuel Howells. Then we looked at David Yongecho from the Yoida Full Gospel Church in Seoul. So their church started this prayer mountain. So they had night and day prayer. They started that in 1973. Then there's Larry Lee who started the International Prayer Movement. Then there's the International House of Prayer in Kansas. I'm not sure how many of you are familiar with this, but I hope. So they have 24-7 prayers and worship and that's been happening since September 1999 to present day, 24-7 prayer and worship in their buildings. And then Dutch Sheets and Lou Engel are some present day prayer leaders. So we have a quote here from Rhys Howells. It said, the world became a parish and we were led to be responsible to intercede for countries and nations. So the idea here being 24-7 prayer and intercession for the world. The church growth movement. This is something we also talked about how we're seeing mega churches coming into existence. And one of the examples was David Yongecho's and their church. They primarily used the cell group movement. So starting of cell groups and equipping of believers for ministry. So that was something that made a huge impact on their church. And then there have been other ways that other churches have used other innovative methods for their church to grow using media and using much larger buildings using other methods to draw people into the church. 2000 to present the saints movement. That is again releasing people into whatever God has called them to equipping them and releasing them into that. Some examples of people who have been part of this movement is Francis McNutt, Bishop Bill Hammond, John Wimber, John and Carol Arnett of Vineyard, Randy Clark, Bill Johnson. And then the last is the marketplace ministry movement which is that whole movement which talks about impacting the seven mountains of society. So family, religion, education, media, arts, entertainment, business, government. So looking at how is the church impacting all of these areas, impacting the world much more focus on equipping every believer so that when they go into the marketplace they are able to impact their spaces with the kingdom of God. So these are some of the ways in which the church, we've seen the church transformed, the church's focus transformed so that God can move in the way he wants to move in present day. And why this is important is for us to be sensitive to what is God doing in our day. What does he want to do in the present day church and how do we need to change the way we are doing things to allow God to move. So whether it is changing the way our leadership runs, whether it's changing the way our church meets, right? So the cell group movement. The focus is on discipleship, the focus is on these small groups rather than the big church gatherings. So recognizing what is it that God wants to do in our day, in our context and how do we change our structures? How do we change our functioning to allow that to happen? That's the importance of this new wine skin concept. Restoration in us pursuing God's purposes. Can someone read Ephesians 4, 11 and 12? Ephesians 4 was 11 and 12 and he himself gave some to be apostles, some prophets, some evangelists and some pastors and teachers for the equipping of the saints for the work of ministry for the defying of the body of Christ. Okay, so here what we talked about earlier that every believer should be equipped. Every believer is responsible for the ministry of the church. And so while we have these positions of the apostle, the prophet, the teacher, the pastor, it is for the sake of every believer being equipped. And it's not for the sake of those positions. And then the last we see is the restoration, the church's impact on the world. Someone can read Matthew 5, 13 to 16. Matthew 5 was 13 to 16. You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt loses its flavor, how shall it be seasoned? It is then good for nothing but to be thrown out and trampled under food by men. You are the light of the world. A city that is set on a hill cannot be hidden. Not do they light a lamp and put it under a basket, but on a lamp stand and it gives light to all those who are in the house. Let your light shine so shine before men that they may see your good works and glorify your Father in heaven. So here we see what we talked about that not only is the church transformed, but then the church is used by God to impact the world. So we see in this passage that the church is called to be salt and light. We're called to be the people who are displaying God's glory and by that people turn to Christ just by seeing the glory of God in the church. And so this is what has been restored to the church and understanding that we are too impact the world. We're not here to just be a separate body of people who are cut off from the rest of the world. We do our thing and the world does its own thing. We meet on a Sunday. We worship in the church. Our faith is not contained to that Sunday service or to the gathering of believers, but it is to be taken out to the spaces that we are in, to our everyday places, to our workplaces, to our homes, to our neighborhoods, in all those places that the kingdom of God is in us and is impacting the places we are in. And so that is another big restoration that has happened within the understanding of what is the church's role and how do we live that out in our contexts. So we'll close with that and tomorrow we'll look at chapter 7, which is Revival in Adi. Thank you all.