Wednesday, 11 March 2015

The 10 most influential things on church from past century

From: http://www.churchleaders.com/pastors/pastor-articles/247118-10-influential-church-trends-last-century.html/2

The following have influenced and shaped the church and her thinking more than anything else in the last 100 years:

1) The birth of the charismatic movement. Starting at Azusa Street in 1906.
2) The house church movement in China
3) The interacting of people (Internet and interstate), creating multiethnic churches
4) The largest church in history (The Full Gospel Church - 750 000 strong), cell movement.
5) The Southern Baptist Convention. A denomination that began in 1900 and became the largest protestant church in the US, based in large part on the motivating of lay leaders and their adult Sunday school visitation
6) The Scofield Bible and Scofield's approach to exposition
7) Willow Creek and the Seeker model/emphasis
8) Worldwide development of praise-worship music
9) Church embracing advertising and media to help with the message
10) Churches willing to adapt their style to embrace baby boomers a generation of children massively different from the pre WWII generation.

We broke the categories into four realms: (1) inward for spiritual growth, (2) upward to God, (3) relational to other believers and (4) outward to the non-Christian.

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