You may you go straight to the segment of the 700 Club where Dr. Pat Robertson interviewed Dr. Vinson Synan earlier this week--Copy and paste the link below:
http://www.cbn.com/media/player/index.aspx?s=/mp4/SUS194_DrVinsonSynan_051011_WS
THE 21ST CENTURY AND SPIRIT-EMPOWERED CHRISTIANITY
The Pentecostal/Charismatic movement’s terminology is changing to “the Spirit-empowered movement,” which now numbers 600 million people worldwide, second in size to the Roman Catholic Church as a family of Christians.
One of the reasons is word “empowered” appeals to the younger generation, which is not interested in denominational labels. In April 2010, the Empowered21 Global Congress on Holy Spirit Empowerment in the Twenty-First Century was held. This intergenerational congress brought together Christian scholars, church leaders, and next generation participants from all over the world to converse about the current manifestations of the Holy Spirit throughout the world’s cultures, church denominations and generations. They acknowledged the historic roots of the Spirit-empowered movement in order to focus on the future.
Dr. Synan was asked to gather top scholars from America and other nations to address different topics regarding the future of the Charismatic/Spirit-empowered movement and write a book. What resulted is Spirit-Empowered Christianity in the 21rst Century, a reference book with the goal to challenge the next generation, or “nextgen” with its own outlook and spiritual understanding.
It has become a passing of the torch from current spiritual leaders to a fresh generation. One-third of the book has essays written by Regent professors and it is already being adopted as a textbook at Oral Roberts University and Gordon Conwell Seminary. Dr. Synan says, “It is my desire that future generations will see this book as an important marker of the Pentecostal/Charismatic Movement at the beginning of the 21st Century and a visionary guide to the future.”
Pat Robertson has been in the middle of the whole movement and has played a major role. Regent University will be holding the next Empowered21 leaders meeting in 2012. Dr. Synan sees Regent as an intellectual and spiritual center and it is the first and only university that offers Renewal Studies.
[Editor's Comment: We are extremely proud when one of our sons from the Pentecostal Holiness Church succeeds in life, and makes an impact on the church world. Dr. Vinson Synan is one of those elite sons who has done well, and makes us all proud in the best sense of the word of pride. Let us thank God for the gift He has given us in Vinson Synan. What a man!]
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Thu, May 12, 2011
by Hugh Morgan