Professor

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Professors Notes

• Theology As A Movement
• Perspectives of Historical Pneumatology
• Dr. Hector Ortiz, D. Min.

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Theology as a Movement Perspectives of
Historical Pneumatology

• Three major categories that frame some
  theological formation
• Dr. Harold Hunters Categories, modified

(1) Apostolic Succession Roman Catholic
Eastern Orthodox Anglican/Episcopal
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Theology as a Movement Perspectives of
Historical Pneumatology

• Three major categories that frame some
  theological formation
• Dr. Harold Hunters Categories, modified

• (2)
• Apostolic Teaching
• Protestantism
• Lutheran
• Reform
• Evangelical

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Theology as a Movement Perspectives of
Historical Pneumatology

• Three major categories that frame some
  theological formation
• Dr. Harold Hunters Categories, modified

(3) Apostolic Restoration Radical Reformation
Baptistic PentecostalCharasmatic
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A.J. TomlinsonConcerning Restoration

• Although we have not reached the standard in
  every respect we are nearer to it today than any
  people have ever been since the apostasy that
  commenced about the third century. While the
  noble reformers of the sixteenth and seventeenth
  centuries failed to reform from creeds yet they
  did recognize the need of government and
  organization

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A.J. TomlinsonConcerning Restoration

• During the outpouring of the Spirit in the last
  seven years people have been free to abandon
  creeds in a great measure, but have largely
  failed to recognize the importance of government.
  But here sits a body of people upon whose
  shoulders rest great responsibilities, that have
  cut loose from creeds and at the same time
  recognize the importance of government as well

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A.J. TomlinsonConcerning Restoration

• Before me is gathered a company of warriors who
  do not expect to be satisfied with a partial
  reformation. Nothing will satisfy this
  convention, composed of brave, brawny,
  self-sacrificing reformers, but a full
  restoration of all graces, gifts, and glory,
  power and government instituted and exhibited by
  our Lord, Jesus Christ and His holy apostles.

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A.J. TomlinsonConcerning Restoration

• We are here in this great convention to
  search out any point of Bible truth that may be
  wanting, and having found it, hoist it to its
  proper place that the base may thus be extended
  and made more firm. This should be a time of
  deep searching and real seriousness. Upon our
  search, finding and decisions at this Assembly
  hangs many thousands of precious souls

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A.J. TomlinsonConcerning Restoration

• A wrong move may hurl many into perdition. A
  right move will be the salvation and eternal
  happiness of millions. What awful
  responsibilities are resting upon us! But we
  must bear them and push on.
• (A.J. Tomlinson, Historical Annual Addresses,
  Vol. 1, 1970, pp. 28-29, 31)

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A Present Challenge Is to Discern Gods Eternal
Plan

• The Church of God of Prophecy is on a Journey of
  Destiny.
• In him we were also chosen, having been
  predestined according to the plan of him who
  works out everything in conformity with the
  purpose of his will (Eph 111 NIV).
• Plan Will Purpose Conformity

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• A WATERSHED PRONOUNCEMENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE
  CHURCH OF GOD OF PROPHECY
• September 10, 1984
• Question and Subjects Committee Report

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A WATERSHED PRONOUNCEMENT

• It is a subject which the Holy Ghost brought
  very forcefully upon us in our first meeting of
  this Assembly year held in January. Its need
  finds expression in the second chapter of Joel
  Blow the trumpet in Zion, sanctify a fast, call
  a solemn assembly Gather the people, sanctify
  the congregation, assemble the elders,

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A WATERSHED PRONOUNCEMENT

• gather the children, and those that suck the
  breasts let the bridegroom go forth of his
  chamber, and the bride out of her closet. Let
  the priests, the ministers of the Lord, weep
  between the porch and the altar, and let them
  say, Spare thy people, O Lord, and give not thine
  heritage to reproach (vv. 15-17).

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A WATERSHED PRONOUNCEMENT

• This Committee knows of no greater need to
  bring this Assemblys attention than the need for
  repentancethe need to fall on our faces before
  God, confessing that we have drifted in many ways
  from a vital relationship with the Holy Ghost,
  confessing a self-centeredness lacking in deep
  compassion for a world of people who are living
  now under the judgment of God to eternal
  damnation,

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A WATERSHED PRONOUNCEMENT

• rededicating ourselves to being the Church of
  God of the Bible. Gods message to the Church in
  this Assembly has been a call to repent, and we
  must not ignore His voice. We cannot afford to
  continue the pursuit of our mission without
  convincing evidence of His presence and approval.
  There is no acceptable substitute for repentance
  when that is what God is calling us to do.

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A WATERSHED PRONOUNCEMENT

• With the moderators permission, we suggest
  that this portion of our report be accepted, not
  by a motion and a second to the motion, but by
  those present in this Assembly falling down
  before the Lord, thus setting the pace for a
  Church-wide repentance to follow when these
  recommendations are ratified in our local church
  conferences around the world, where every local
  church at that time will likewise confess their
  failure in sincere repentance.
• (AM 1984 127)

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THE JOURNEY OF DESTINYThe Challenges
Opportunities of the Churchs Journey

• Restoration Journey
• The Church of God of Prophecy began with a
  fervent vision and mission TO BE what the Holy
  Scripture was revealing that the Ecclesia of God
  should be! The COGOP, from its very beginning,
  had a restoration spirit to fulfill the destiny
  of the Bible church.

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The Journey Continues

• Biblical and theological knowledge is essential
  in ascertaining the knowledge of the Holy One
  (Proverbs 910) and to grow into the knowledge of
  the Son of God (Ephesians 413).

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The Journey Continues

• The following captures a truism we would be wise
  to observe
• Some seek knowledge for the sake of knowledge
  that is curiosity others seek knowledge that
  they may themselves be known that is vanity but
  there are still others who seek knowledge in
  order to serve and edify others, and that is
  charity.
• -Bernard of Clairvaux

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The Journey Continues

• A looming and pressing question for the COGOP is
  What type of church do we desire to BE? Also,
  What type of leadership does the church desire to
  develop?
• These are ontological questions because they deal
  with the very essence, substance, and nature of
  the Bible Church and its leadership. Example I
  I1 Thess. 11-10.

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The Journey Continues

• But Christ is faithful as a Son over Gods
  house. And we are His house if we hold on to our
  courage and the hope of which we boast (Heb.
  36).
• To be an authentic expression of the Bible Church
  is a call to become mature, attaining to the
  whole measure of the fullness of Christ (Eph.
  413).

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The Journey Continues

• The stature of something is attested by the
  measure it contains and judged by the determined
  extent of the allotted measure. The Church, the
  Body of Christ, has been allotted a full measure
  that will extend until it fulfills its destiny.
  Destiny is fulfilled when the space, volume,
  height, and length has reached its intended
  measure.

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The Journey Continues

• Challenges and opportunities require courage and
  hope, which are words that describe circumstances
  of difficulties, times of complex problems, and
  the enigma of life. Courage conquers fear and
  doubt hope pierces the veil of the future and
  becomes grounded in what shall be and does not
  fade into the past. It takes courage and hope to
  stay the storms of life to fulfill destiny.

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DESTINY

• Our destiny offers not the cup of despair,
  but the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize
  it, not in fear, but in gladness let us go
  forward, firm in our faith, steadfast in our
  purpose, cautious of the dangers but sustained
  by our confidence in the will of God
• (W.E. Warner 1972 248)

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DESTINY

• For the Church to be the Church, her leader-ship
  must rise to the call of destiny and apply the
  instruction of Paul to Archippus, See to it that
  you complete the work you have received in the
  Lord (Col. 417).
• Archippus means driver of horses.

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GOD, ALL IN ALL

• 1 Corinthians 1528
• The Triune God
• The Greater Than
• The Sum of All
• For God Is All in All

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• The Triune God Is
• God the Father
• God the Son
• God the Holy Spirit
• No Subordination
• No Confusion
• One Essence
• Intra - Penetration
• No Autonomy
• Eternal Will
• Eternal Plan
• Ephesians 111

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GOD IS ALL IN ALL

• Gods Absolute Free Will Produced His
• Eternal Will, Which Constructed His Eternal Plan
• In the Triune God There Is No Autonomy
• Humankind Has Being Given Relative Free Will
• Human Kind Can choose to Agree and Work With
• Gods Absolute Will and Plan or choose
• Not to Work with Gods Absolute Will or Plan.
• Discernment is needed to find Gods will and plan.

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• Examples Concerning Discernment
• 1. A Bad Idea with a Manifestation 1 Samuel
  45, 11
• 2. Let Us Beware of What We Copy 1 Samuel 67
• 3. A Good Idea But A Wrong Application
• 1 Chronicles 134,7 I Chronicles 1513
• All the Above Connects with
• Mother Church
• And Her Desire to Be the Church
• Hebrews 36

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CHALLENGE AND OPPORTUNITY

• Trans-generation Dynamics The COGOP will
  experience its greatest trans-generational
  leadership change in the next ten to twelve years
  of its one hundred seven year history.
• The metaphor of the city of refuge Deuteronomy
  192-3.

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Challenge and Opportunity

• Deuteronomy 192-3 (NIV)
• Then set aside for yourselves three cities
  centrally located in the land the Lord your God
  is giving you to possess. Build roads to them
  and divide into three parts the land the Lord
  your God is giving you as an inheritance, so that
  anyone who kills a man may flee there.

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Challenge and Opportunity

• The cities of refuge were an act of mercy and
  justice to ensure life to those who, with no
  intent or malice, accidentally killed someone
  they provided a place to flee to save ones life.
  This was one way of assisting one generation to
  live to pass on its inheritance to the next.

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Challenge and Opportunity

• The main metaphor of accessibility was the
  command to build roads to get to the cities of
  refuge. In ancient times, roads were more like
  paths often called highways. The Romans were
  the first to make paved roads.

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Challenge and Opportunity

• The metaphor of build roads gives the nuance
  that roads, like bridges, are conduits for
  movement from one place to another they are
  connectors that lead somewhere. Therefore, how
  effective the surface of the road is will
  determine whether it is an accessible channel or
  an obstacle course with hurdles and hindrances.

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Challenge and Opportunity

• The challenge and opportunity for the present
  leadership is to build accessible roads without
  obstacles. One of the obstacles to emerging
  leaders is that the present leadership has not
  developed long term leadership development
  strategies that can engage the realities of the
  new world order. Absentee modeling of biblical
  leadership development is a contradiction of the
  highest order.

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CHALLENGES AND OPPORTUNITIES

• The Pentecostal movement is being trans-formed
  from its classical base of
• Justification by faith
• Entire sanctification
• Baptism in the Holy Spirit as evidenced by
  speaking in tongue
• Divine healing provided by the atonement of
  Christ
• The imminent premillennial second coming of Christ

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Challenges and Opportunities

• The Pentecostal movement presently is a
  convergence of restoration, renewal and Spirit
  movements that is producing a new Pentecostal
  mosaic. This new Pentecostal mosaic includes the
  charismatic, third wave and independent
  fellowships.

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Challenges and Opportunities

• This complex mosaic is infusing different streams
  of spirit-led belief systems which are influenced
  by migration, and includes the church within the
  church and the faith/ prosperity gospel.

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Challenge and OpportunitiesImpact of Migration
Patterns
When people migrate they move with their
language, culture, cognitive world views,
religion and family/community connections.
Migration is having and will have greater impact
on the globalization process in the 21st century.
In the migration process people move or get moved
by the forces of economic crisis, political
conditions, and wars/refugee problems.
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Challenge and OpportunitiesImpact of Migration
Patterns
In many cases of migration, people cross borders
illegally. It may be illegal to cross borders
without proper papers, but is it legal to be
massacred, raped, or see your children dying of
malnutrition? These migratory conditions are not
going to go away in the globalization process.
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Challenge and OpportunitiesImpact of Migration
Patterns
In Islamic nations and states, the Sharia laws,
which contain anti-conversion aspects, mean that
for the COGOP to operate or exist and grow is to
function outside the law. The Sharia laws and
migratory patterns are already presenting
challenges and opportunities to develop
leader-ship programs in fulfilling the Great
Commission of winning individuals to Christ and
making disciples. A looming question for the
COGOP is how to balance Rom 131 and Acts 4.
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Challenge and OpportunitiesImpact of Migration
Patterns
Romans 131-3 (NIV) Everyone must submit
himself to the governing authorities, for there
is no authority except that which God has
established. The authorities that exist have been
established by God. Consequently, he who rebels
against the authority is rebelling against what
God has instituted, and those who do so will
bring judgment on themselves. For rulers hold no
terror for those who do right, but for those who
do wrong. Do you want to be free from fear of the
one in authority? Then do what is right and he
will commend you.
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Challenge and OpportunitiesImpact of Migration
Patterns
Acts 419-20 (NIV) But Peter and John replied,
"Judge for yourselves whether it is right in
God's sight to obey you rather than God. For we
cannot help speaking about what we have seen and
heard."
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Challenge and OpportunitiesImpact of Migration
Patterns
If we are not careful, we will mute Acts 419-20
to Romans 131-3 and forget that the Christian
movement was an illegal religion until 312 A.D.
and has been illegal through the centuries in
many places. Will the COGOP minister to souls
and members who find themselves in the grips of
migration or take the position of ministering
only where we can be legal. This matter deals
with two of our core values, Harvest and
Leadership Development.
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The Complex Web of Globalization of
Transnationalism in the New DiasporaThe
Prosperity Gospel

• Diaspora has the general connotation of a
  particular ethnical people group who, for a
  variety of circumstances, have left or been
  displaced from their native homeland to live and
  settle in another country. Historically,
  transnationals are the very fiber of the diaspora
  due to war and economic conditions. In the past,
  the methods of migration were more difficult, and
  those who migrated to foreign countries remained
  for indefinite periods.

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The Complex Web of Globalization of
Transnationalism in the New DiasporaThe
Prosperity Gospel

• The present day phenomenon of the diaspora is a
  free flowing diaspora due to better travel
  methods and internet connections, which is
  supported by greater economic conditions. The
  new transnational diaspora is a construct of a
  constant flow of persons, ideas and finances.
  Thus, in a great measure, the present diaspora is
  following the streams of prosperity which fuels
  the prosperity gospel approach.

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THE PROSPERITY GOSPEL Biblical, Incarnational,
Hedonistic

• Biblical The Bible does teach that God will
  prosper and bless his people spiritually and
  physically as they obey the Word of God (Mal.
  36-10 Matt. 633 Luke 638). Discerning
  balance is needed in matters of prosperity. The
  unbalanced stress that has been placed on
  Scriptures such as 3 John 2 to produce the
  prosperity gospel has to be questioned, as well
  as the poverty gospel.

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Discerning Balance

• 3 John 2 has to be understood from an
  Incarnational dynamic of Truly God, Truly Man
  one side of the Incarnation does not truncate the
  other. The overemphasis on prosperity in
  proportion to ones spiritual status negates the
  cruciform dimension of the Cross of Christ.
• It negates that suffering, as well as lacking, is
  part of the Incarnational life in following the
  Savior.

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Discerning Balance

• It negates the Christo-centric message of phroneo
  your attitude (phroneo) should be the same as
  that of Christ Jesus (Phil. 25).
• It negates I want to know Christ and the power
  of His resurrection and the fellowship of sharing
  in His suffering, becoming like him in His death
  (Phil. 310).

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Discerning Balance

• It negates Now I rejoice in what was suffered
  for you, and I fill up in my flesh what is still
  lacking in regards to Christs afflictions, for
  the sake of His body, which is the Church (Col.
  124).

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Discerning Balance

• How do the millions of children of God who live
  in war-torn countries and refugee camps or
  mentally challenged individuals prosper as their
  soul prospers? The Scripture is not glorifying
  suffering, poverty, or prosperity the Scripture
  is honoring a holistic gospel for a holistic
  Christian experience with Christ, and in Christ.
  We neither need a poverty gospel nor a prosperity
  gospel we need a balanced Incarnational gospel.

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Discerning Balance

• The prosperity gospel strokes the flesh. Who
  does not want better health, better jobs, better
  housing, better opportunitiesa better life style
  in every sense of the word? Prosperity is built
  on the premise of pleasurewhat pleases
  humankind. The excessive wave of the prosperity
  gospel is moving into the entrapment of the
  philosophical doctrine of hedonism where pleasure
  is the chief good in life and such is the way
  life should be lived.

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Discerning Balance

• The concept of the prosperity gospel is already
  working its way into the mindset of some of our
  ministers and laity.
• For such a time as this, the COGOP needs to
  emphasize the Christo-centric gospel that neither
  glorifies poverty nor prosperity, but glorifies
  the holistic gospel of the IncarnationTruly God,
  Truly Man.

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THE DELIVERANCE GOSPEL Biblical, Fixation of
Dualism, and Messalians

• Biblical The Bible does teach the message of
  deliverance and spiritual warfare against the
  stronghold of Satan (Isa. 611 Luke 417-19
  Luke 91-2 Mark 1615-18 Eph. 610-17).

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Discerning Balance

• The deliverance gospel blesses people in many
  ways and is part of the power of God. The danger
  in the deliverance gospel is when a drifting
  begins where the children of God have need of
  constant deliverance from an indefinite set of
  problems and circumstances. This leads into the
  basic tenet of Dualism that teaches that the body
  is bad (evil), while the spiritual is good.

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Discerning Balance

• When Gods people develop a fixation that they
  have to continually be delivered from something,
  a dangerous tendency has developed. A
  deliverance fixation is not a holistic work of
  the Holy Spirit it leads to ever striving but
  never obtaining deliverance. It is a drifting
  into a state of affairs where wholeness is always
  out of reach.

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Discerning Balance

• It leads to a fixation mindset concerning
  deliverance in contrast to only let us live up
  to what we have already attained (Phil. 316).
  There is evidence that the deliverance fixation
  with its ever reaching but never attaining is
  gaining some in-roads into the ministry and laity
  of the COGOP.

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Discerning Balance

• If discerning balance is not applied to the
  deliverance message, there exists the possibility
  of drifting into the old radical heresy of the
  Messalians mi-seyl-yuh-n, who taught one could
  have the Holy Spirit and still have demons
  dwelling as well therefore, they were in need of
  constant deliverance.

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Ecclesial Challenges and Opportunities
What type of Presiding Bishops do we want to
develop? There is global evidence that more and
more of our Presiding Bishops are becoming more
like administrators than Apostolic Bishops.
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Ecclesial Challenges and Opportunities
Has the COGOP arrived at the crossroads of Acts
63-4? Brothers, choose seven men from among you
who are known to be full of the Spirit and
wisdom. We will turn this responsibility over to
them and will give our attention to prayer and
the ministry of the Word.
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Challenges and OpportunitiesThe Journey of
Destiny

• The COGOP as an ecclesial body of Pentecostal
  believers is striving to be an authentic
  expression of the Body of Christ. In its quest
  to fulfill its destiny, its respective DNA will
  assist in developing strategies for leadership
  development. Destiny is beckoning, and I believe
  this church will rise to the many challenges and
  opportunities by obtaining a greater measure of
  maturity.

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The Journey Continues

• The stature of something is attested by the
  measure it contains and judged by the determined
  extent of the allotted measure. The Church, the
  Body of Christ, has been allotted a full measure
  that will extend until it fulfills its destiny.
  Destiny is fulfilled when the space, volume,
  height, and length has reached its intended
  measure.

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DESTINY

• Our destiny offers not the cup of despair, but
  the chalice of opportunity. So let us seize it,
  not in fear, but in gladnesslet us go forward,
  firm in our faith, steadfast in our purpose,
  cautious of the dangers but sustained by our
  confidence in the will of God
• (W.E. Warner 1972248)

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The Prayer (by David Foster)

• I pray you'll be our guide, and watch us where we
  go.And help us to be wise in times when we don't
  know.Let this be our prayer, when we lose our
  way.Lead us to a place, guide us with Your
  graceTo a place where we'll be safe.I pray we
  'Il find your light and hold it in our
  heartsWhen stars go out each night,Remind us
  where You are.Let this be our prayer, where
  shadows fill our days.Oh Lord, lead us to a
  place.
• Guide us with your grace give us faith so we'll
  be safe.A world where pain and sorrow will be
  ended.And every heart that's broken will be
  mended.And we'll remember we are all God's
  childrenreaching out to touch You, reaching to
  the sky! Yes, let life be kind and
  righteousness from above.We hope each soul will
  find another soul to love.Let this be our
  prayer
• Just like every child needs to find a place.
• Guide us with your grace.Give us faith so we'll
  be safe.

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We are working with a global vision.
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