The Christ-Awakening Movement" ??

[buzzardhut]

What do you think this is all about :confused

http://proclaimhope.gospelcom.net/

[sracer]

Whenever I see a ministry website that doesn't have a link to a STATEMENT OF FAITH, my antenna gets tweaked. When a word, or couple of words are dramatically repeated... I get a bit antsy.

The words that are repeated are "HOPE", "CHRIST", and "AWAKE".

A quick search of their pages comes up empty for "salvation", "sin", "savior". No where do they talk about Jesus being God Himself... being a person of the Godhead.

It reminds me of the Unity church.

[buzzardhut]

It appears this book is a prep for the up and coming false prophet and false messiah.

http://proclaimhope.gospelcom.net/uploads/_MINISTRY%20PROFILE_Feb06%20(3).pdf (http://proclaimhope.gospelcom.net/uploads/_MINISTRY%20PROFILE_Feb06%20%283%29.pdf)

It is a strategy to help prepare the Church in America for our greatest hope in this critical hour of national challenge — to prepare for what Scripture sometimes refers to as a “visitation from Heaven”.

Since the day of His ascension His cosmic preeminence remains forever unchallenged.

the “platform” of this campaign encourages Christians to look beyond the centrality of Christ, which may be defined as His right to be at the center of who we are, where we’re headed, what we’re doing

Some call it a “crisis of Christology”. I define it as a “crisis of supremacy”. It is the dramatic shortfall in how Christians see, seek and speak about the glorious greatness of God’s Son.

ministering to pastors and leaders, facilitating scores of three-day “prayer summits”, bringing Christians together across denominations and races for the cause of Christ

leading pastors hosted a series of half-day Christ Roundtables, making these intimate gatherings

But Christian leaders in Washington State do not intend to rest until they have reached the “tipping point” — until churches and ministries are flooded with Messengers of Hope and God gives an awakening among Christians to ALL that Christ is as Lord. This is the revival they keep praying for.

• Christ Awakening Events
• Christ Roundtables
• Christ Summits
• Christ Huddles
• Christ Colleges
• National Media Linkages
• Website Support
• Strategic Alliances

PROCLAIM HOPE! represents the culmination of decades of ministry to the Body of Christ among the nations. Some background: At the turn of the millennium a “Council of Elders” was convened in Chicago at the initiative of twenty national Christian leaders to urge me to pour myself full-bore into a more extensive effort at proclaiming the glory of God’s Son to God’s people. Two years later, with similar certainty 70 national Christian leaders issued an “Open Letter to the Church”, putting their signatures to it urging Christians everywhere to welcome the formation of PROCLAIM HOPE! and join together to encourage its efforts. Accordingly, we “retired” our former name, Concerts of Prayer International (though retaining the same board and corporate structure) for the new thrust called PROCLAIM HOPE!
Transitioned from our decades-old mission of raising up concerted prayer, we are now actively propagating among Christians increased clarity about the hope the Church is praying toward. Our term for this great hope is a “Christ-awakening” — a God-given renewal of the vision of God’s people for God’s Son and the full extent of His supremacy. All of this targets the mobilization of the Church to advance the Gospel among the nations in fresh, new ways.


OUR THEME Awake to Christ for ALL that He is!
OUR VISION A Church empowered and mobilized by hope in the supremacy of God’s Son.
OUR MISSION To awaken throughout the Church fresh hope, passion, prayer and mission, focused on the Lord Jesus Christ, by proclaiming the full extent of His supremacy and by empowering others to do the same.
God’s call on PROCLAIM HOPE! could be distilled into the same three phrases found at the opening of this Proposal. They are incorporated into our logo:
Proclaim Christ’s Supremacy.
Awaken Hope Fully.
Empower the Church.


It's like a mission statement for churches on what to do after the Rapture.

maybe he is just saying people should make christ (he doesn't declare who christ is) the Lord of your life?
or maybe he is just trying to sell more copies of his book? :confused
this mumbo jumbo is hard to read

[buzzardhut]

Maybe he is just now discovering Lordship Salvation, which was popular in the '90's, but without the salvation part? :confused

Overall approach to discipleship in the American church will be reconstituted into what PROCLAIM HOPE! terms anticipatory discipleship. This means every current approach to disciple-making will still be implemented but now re-oriented around the implications of the hope we have in Christ’s supremacy and thus considered, in large part, to be preparation for participation in increasing demonstrations of His lordship. New disciple-making curricula, in other words, will not need to be created. Rather, current programs will be retooled to focus on this larger vision and its implications for our daily walk with God’s Son. (A whole chapter in CHRIST IS ALL! discusses this retooling in detail.)

• Three helpful terms will become increasingly popular and useful in describing the outcomes of ministries inside local churches: Messengers of Hope, Prisoners of Hope, and Vanguards of Hope (defined in the last three chapters of CHRIST IS ALL!)

• A “Christology from above”, as a theological perspective, will play an increasingly influential role for all Christians in their study and teaching.

• The “Lordship of Christ”, as a biblical concept, will be enriched and expanded for the average believer so as to incorporate its fullest biblical meaning for and application to every facet of Christian living.

• “Christian”, as a believer’s primary identity, will be re-claimed and embraced in keeping with its original biblical meaning relating to passion for the full extent of the supremacy of Christ (see Acts 11).

• Ascension Sunday (celebrating the coronation of God’s Son) will be observed annually within a majority of evangelical churches, honored as a special holy day, on the same level as Easter and Christmas — a day to re-summon God’s people back to God’s Son for ALL that He is.

• Accelerated by the Leaders Convocation Toward a Nationwide Christ-awakening Movement by 2010 we expect National Campaign of Hope to be propelled forward by its own momentum, with strong support from a wide spectrum of leaders, denominations and ethnicities. The significant impact of awakening a full-bodied hope in Christ will help re-convert nominal evangelicals back to Kingdom promises fulfilled in our Reigning Lord. The campaign will intensify motivation for many to participate more whole-heartedly in advancing the movement.

• Nationally, Christians will live in constant “readiness” for even more of Christ’s Kingdom to break through in American culture. As a result of the campaign’s impact on the vitality of the Church, church leaders along with many other committed Christians will be praying for and preparing for a more pervasive, nationwide spiritual awakening to Christ not only inside our churches but also throughout the general non-Christian population in America. “Readiness for more” will become a way of life — a daily walk of hope.

• Internationally, heightened desire for biblical teaching on Christ and His supremacy will be welcomed by the Church worldwide due to reports of its extraordinarily positive contribution to the renewal so desperately needed in the American church. In turn, this phenomenon will strengthen the attractiveness and credibility of the witness of God’s people to the Gospel throughout many nations. It is anticipated that, as a result, invitations will come for me and for other facilitators to assist in the development of indigenous Campaigns of Hope within the Body of Christ in other lands.

• Missionary recruitment will experience significant increases as the younger generation captures a passion for the reaching of two billion unevangelized peoples. Mobilization for missions will occur because the National Campaign of Hope has successfully revived in them greater commitment to God’s Son for ALL that He is as well as confidence about the victorious outcome His global cause.

• Intensified concerted prayer will become a hallmark of churches and ministries, as the Holy Spirit uses the re-awakening of hope and passion toward Christ to compel God’s people into renewed prayer for the advance of Christ’s Kingdom on all fronts. At the same time, the Christ-awakening itself will be seen as God’s primary answer to the international prayer movement of the past decades, thus motivating increased prayer everywhere.