Rogers AR
Spring 2016
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PERSPECTIVES CLASS 2016 15 speakers in 15 weeks
Tuesdays 6:30 pm Located at Cross Church Pinnacle Hills, Rogers AR
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Warning! This class will ruin you for the ordinary.
Professor of Record Russ Doran
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Lesson 1
The Living God is a Missionary God
God's purpose is three-fold: against evil—kingdom victory; for the nations—redemption and blessing; and for God—global glory in worship. God's purpose revealed in promise to Abraham. Exploring God's purpose for the nations: Blessing to the nations described.
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Instructor
Sean Cooper
The Traveling Team, Fayetteville AR
Sean and his wife Meredith have spent the last decade traveling the entire Continental U.S. casting mission vision with Traveling Team. They have a two year old daughter named Haven. Sean graduated from the University of Arkansas with a degree in Communication. He has short term exposure in India and Indonesia. Sean continues to travel nation wide speaking to students and churches. When not speaking he serves alongside The Traveling Team Leadership as the Director of Ministry Advancement. He is working on a Masters Degree from Reformed Theological Seminary. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, January 19, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM
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Lesson 2
The Story of His Glory
Exploring God's purpose for Himself: How God has been steadily unfolding a plan throughout all nations and generations to bring about His greater glory, ultimately drawing to Himself the worship of all the peoples. Passion and prayer for God's glory.
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Instructor
Russell Doran
Rogers AR
Upon graduation in 1966 with a BBA/Fin, I was commissioned in USAF. After serving 5 years as an aircraft maintenance officer, I entered seminary and earned my MDiv in 1976. I have had a brokers license in real estate, served as a controller in glass manufacturing for 16 years and then operations mgr for material fabricator for 12 years. During these years I taught Sunday School, did pulpit supply, led men's bible studies and small group fellowships. My spiritual gifts are teaching and encouragement. My greatest joy comes when I see people's lives transformed by the effectual power of God's Word. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, January 26, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM
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Lesson 3
Your Kingdom Come
Exploring God's purpose regarding evil: How God has accomplished a defeat of evil powers in order to open a season of history in which the nations can freely follow Christ. The kingdom of God as the destiny of all history. Christ's mission seeks a hindering of evil to bring about a sign of the coming peace of the kingdom of God. Our prayers contend with evil in order to bring about the transformation of society with Christ's kingdom in view.
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John Zumwalt
Outrageous Love, Choctaw OK
John Zumwalt is the Cross Cultural Coach for the innovative organization, Outrageous Love. After serving as a missionary among the unreached Minnan he returned to America and for over 22 years served as the founder and Director of the Missionary Training Institute, Beautiful Feet Boot Camp. He has trained over 300 Career Missionaries. He has a Doctorate of Divinity from International University for Graduate Studies. John has authored the book, Passion for the Heart of God and travels widely, preaching and holding seminars, raising up activist to go to the ends of the earth. John and his wife, Jamie, also pastor a church in a “red light district” of Oklahoma City. They have five children, Jessica, Josiah, Jael, Jewel and James. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, February 2, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM
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Lesson 4
Mandate for the Nations
Jesus shows great strategic interest in Gentiles; wise strategic focus by initiating a global mission on a few disciples among the Hebrew people. The Great Commission and the ways of God's sending in relational power. Dealing with the ideas of pluralism (all religions the same) and universalism (all persons saved).
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Todd Ahrend
The Traveling Team, Fayetteville AR
Todd Ahrend graduated from Northeastern State University, has a Masters from Dallas Theological Seminary and a Doctorate from Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary.
He is the founder and international Director of The Traveling Team, a national missions mobilization movement. He and his wife, Jessica, have spent almost two decades traveling both nation-wide and abroad, speaking to thousands of people about involvement in world evangelization. Todd has exposure in over sixty countries and has lived in the Middle East. He is the author of The Abrahamic Revolution and In This Generation. Todd and Jessica have six children: Camden, Brody, Axel, Noble, Quincy and Cruz!
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, February 9, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM
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Lesson 5
Unleashing the Gospel
The first followers of Jesus: obedient in costly, foundational ways. The climactic act of the book of Acts is the freeing of the gospel to be followed by Gentiles without Jewish traditions as a requirement. A foundational act of God which speaks to the situations where the gospel is hindered today. Strategic suffering and apostolic passion.
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Marty Brown
Heritage Baptist Church, Oklahoma City OK
Marty is the Lead Teaching and Missions Pastor at Heritage Baptist Church in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. He is married to Jan and they have three children and six grandchildren. His is leading his church in church planting among an unreached people group in Central Asia. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM
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Lesson 6
The Expansion of the Christian Movement
The story of God's purpose continues relentlessly from Abraham's day until the present moment. An overview of the largest and the longest-running movement ever in history—the world Christian movement. How the gospel surged through the peoples and places of the world. Important insights for our own day.
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Nathaniel Allen
Global Outfitters, Fayetteville AR
Nathan Allen is the Global Missions pastor at New Heights Church in Fayetteville, AR and the Director of Global Outfitters. He has a Bachelors of Arts in History and political Science from the University of Arkansas. He is currently pursuing a Masters in Theological Studies from Reformed Theological Seminary. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM
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Lesson 7
Eras of Mission History
The greatest explosion of growth ever has taken place in last 200 years in three "bursts" of activity. Why we could be in the final era of missions. The global harvest force comprised increasingly of non-Western missionaries.
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Maxie Burch
Siloam Springs AR
I am in my fourth year at John Brown University where I serve as Chair and Professor of Biblical Studies. My main areas of concentration are the History of Christianity and Historical Theology. I served for 15 years on three church staffs in various positions. I also serve on the theological faculty for Northrise University, Zambia's first accredited, private Christ-centered university located in Ndola,Zambia. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 1, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM
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Lesson 8
Pioneers of the World Christian Movement
Today we anchor the race by continuing what others have begun. It's a day of finishing. All the more reason to learn the wisdom and the heart of ordinary people who did extraordinary things in earlier generations. Reading the writings of William Carey and other leaders to discern what these people have left to us. Exploring the contribution of women in missions throughout the centuries.
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Jamie Zumwalt
Outrageous Love, Oklahoma City OK
Jamie Zumwalt is the Founder and President of Outrageous Love, an organization that starts Communities of Hope among marginalized peoples. Jamie and her husband, John, served as missionaries in Taiwan among the Hakka and Taiwanese. For 22 years, John and Jamie have been training and sending missionaries out to plant the church among the unreached. She now pastors and a leads a coffee house, church community called Joe's Addiction in a "red light" district of Oklahoma City, doing life together with the poor. She has authored two books: Simple Obsession: Enjoying the Tender Heart of God and Beloved Chaos: moving from religion to Love in a red light district. Jamie travels widely, teaching and inviting more people to plant Communities of Hope. She and John have five children and one grand daughter. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM
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Lesson 9
The Task Remaining
God's pressed His purpose forward until the present hour of amazing opportunity. Understanding the concept of "unreached peoples" to assess the remaining task. Recognizing the imbalance of mission resources shapes strategic priorities. The basic minimal missiological achievement in every people group opens the way for working with God against every kind of evil so that the gospel of the kingdom is declared and displayed with clarity and power. The need and opportunity of urban mission.
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Leroy Armstrong
Proclaiming the Word Ministries, Mckinney TX
Leroy R. Armstrong, Jr. is a native of Kansas City, MO and resides in the Dallas area with his wife Genena and family. Leroy holds degrees from the University of Kansas (B. S. Electrical Engineering) and Dallas Theological Seminary (Th.M.). He is Lead Servant of Proclaiming the Word Ministries (www.proclaimingtheword.com). Leroy has been teaching in the Perspectives Movement since 2007. Leroy has served in pastoral leadership roles in churches for 25 years. He was Director of the International Conference on Expository Preaching, sponsored annually by E. K. Bailey Ministries, Inc. for 5 years. He also owns Charis Communications, LLC, an umbrella business focused on acquiring income producing assets (https://chariscommunications.now.site/home). b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 15, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM
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Lesson 10
How Shall They Hear?
Culture and intercultural communication of the gospel. Communicating the gospel with relevance at the worldview level helps avoid syncretism (blending of cultural error with God?s truth) and also enables powerful movements of the gospel. Sensitive missionaries will look for ways that God has preserved or prepared people to hear the gospel, often finding redemptive analogies for God's truth.
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Richard Lewis
Lewis Cross-Cultural Training, Inc., Siloam Springs AR
Cross-Cultural trainer in nearly 50 countries. Fourteen years in Kenya as pioneer church planter; four years in India. Area of expertise is facilitating national missionaries, cross-cultural communication and world religions. More information at my website: http://Lewis-Training.com b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, March 29, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM
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Lesson 11
Building Bridges of Love
The incarnation as a model of missionary humility. How missionaries can enter appropriate roles in order to form relationships of trust and respect to develop a sense of belonging, and thus to communicate with credibility for understanding. Explore the intricacy of identification in another culture. Explore the even greater complexity of presenting identity with integrity in a globalized, terrorized, pluralized world. Recognizing the dynamics of social structure in order to initiate growing movements of ongoing communication throughout the society.
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Mohammad Abdul
Madison Heights MI
Mohammad Abdul is a former professor at Wayne State University in Detroit MI. where he taught in the Department of Anthropology. He is a frequent contributor to various International and national events promoting meetings for better understanding. He is a former professor of Comparative Religions and has studied and lectured internationally. He is a Viet Nam era Veteran and is married. He and his wife of forty-nine years, have three boys twelve grandchildren and four great grandchildren. Mohammad is very personable and enjoys the give and take of interactive discussions. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 5, 2016
Time: 6:30 AM to 9:15 PM
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Lesson 12
Christian Community Development
A survey of world need. Dynamic balance of evangelism and social action. Hope for significant transformation as a sign of Christ's Lordship by Christian community development. Exploring the charge that missionaries destroy instead of serve cultures. Healing the wounds of the world between the peoples.
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Cliff Peters
Paraclete Mission Group, Siloam Springs AR
Cliff is a tinker for Jesus and loves to work on gadgets in his workshop that could be useful in developing countries. He has been a missionary for over 20 years, most recently with Paraclete Mission Group, and is now retired but continues to volunteer with Paraclete and other organizations. He enjoys teaching Christian community development to missionaries, national workers, and Perspectives students as he has opportunity. He lives in NW Arkansas with his wife of 40 years, and has four children and three grandchildren. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM
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Lesson 13
The Spontaneous Multiplication of Churches
Look beyond institutional features of churches to understand churches as dynamic movements of Christ Himself being followed. Such a view of churches as organic, living things opens up the practicality of seeing them multiply rapidly as movements and also flourish in society bearing the fruit of social transformation. Churches as counter-communities, acting as salt and light, bringing change to their cultures. How movements multiply by connecting with entire families and larger social structures.
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Gene Daniels
Fruitful Practice Research, Jacksonville AR
Gene Daniels has a passion to spread the fame of Jesus in the Muslim world, something he and his family have been involved in since 1997, first as church planters in Central Asia and now as a mission researcher. Daniels has his doctorate in Religious Studies from the University of South Africa. He is also the author of several books and dozens of articles on mission. (Gene Daniels is a pseudonym) b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 12, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM
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Lesson 14
Pioneer Church Planting
The hope of planting churches among unreached peoples. How the breakthrough of the gospel in an unreached people requires that the gospel be "de-Westernized". The difference of contextualizing the message, the messenger and the movement. Distinguish and appreciate people movements, church planting movements and insider movements.
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Brian Hogan
Disciple Making Mentors, Fayetteville AR
Brian and Louise Hogan have served in mission since 1987. From the Navajo Tribe to Outer Mongolia, their passion has been to see Jesus glorified and lifted up among those who have never known Him.
From 1993-1996 their team pioneered a church planting movement in Erdenet (AIR-DUH-NET), Mongolia that continues to grow under fully indigenous leadership to this day. Their Mongolian disciples are now training and sending out their own missionaries to other unreached people groups. The story of the work in Erdenet can be read in Brian’s book: There’s a Sheep in my Bathtub (Asteroidea Books), and in the case study article – “Distant Thunder: Mongols Follow the Khan of Khans” – on page 695 of your Perspectives Reader. b
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, April 26, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM
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Lesson 15
World Christian Discipleship
What it means to integrate life for Christ's global purpose as a "'World Christian". Into the great story for His glory: a Person-driven life as a way of. pursuing a purpose-driven life. The basic practices of world Christians: going, sending, welcoming and mobilizing. The essential disciplines of World Christian discipleship: community, giving, praying and learning. Simplifying your lifestyle as if in "war-time". Exploring the practical ways of pursuing God's purpose. Business and mission. Short-term mission. Welcoming international visitors. Wisdom in working with local churches and in partnership with Christians in different parts of the world.
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Doug Sarver
Minister of Global Missions, Cross Church, Springdale AR
In January 1992, Doug accepted a call as Minister of Global Missions at First Baptist Church of Springdale, Arkansas under Dr. Ronnie Floyd. In October 2010 the church changed it’s name to Cross Church in order to strengthen it’s identity as a multi site church.
Cross Church currently has, Five campuses throughout Northwest Arkansas and Southwest Missouri.
Today, Cross Church Missions ministry reaches over 1,500 people weekly through multiple locations of ministry throughout the Northwest Arkansas region. Since 1992 Doug has led Cross Church to plant 120 churches across Northwest Arkansas, America and the World. Thousands of believers have been mobilized through short-term mission trips over the past 24 years. Doug oversees Church Planting partnerships in North and International partnerships in 16 nations. In addition Doug servers as teaching Pastor for Cross Church on the Springdale Campus 10:55 service.
At the age of 25 Doug came to Christ as Savior from a life of successful business and a horrible drug addiction.
Doug has established many ministries since being called to the ministry in 1989 to include Calvary House shelter for homeless families in Beaumont Texas. Doug also serves as Co-founder and International Director of PureMission.org, which is a Mission sending agency and operates Esther’s House orphan and widow care facility in Malawi Africa.
Doug and Karen have been married since 1978 and have four children. Dustin, age 32 and his wife Nina; Trevor, age 30; Elizabeth age 26 (son in law Andrew and grandson Rhett Ellis); and Hanna age 24(husband Austin)
Doug’s life scripture verse is Colossians 3:23 “In whatever you do, do your work heartily, as for the Lord rather than for men.”
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Class Info
Date: Tuesday, May 3, 2016
Time: 6:30 PM to 9:15 PM
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