UNIT FIVE INTRODUCTION This week’s focus is on prophetic confrontation. Perhaps it might be helpful to define what we mean by this phrase. Prophetic has to do with the role or office of the prophet, whether OT or NT. This is the person who gets a word from God, and then is sent to speak that word, whether to a person, or a people. Prophets were involved in foretelling – giving messages from God that were predictive or futuristic in nature. They were also involved in forthtelling – giving messages from God which dealt with the present moral condition of humanity. Confrontation in this application has to do with the one bringing to the attention of another something that the person is doing that is outside God’s instruction or plan for their life. Thus, prophetic confrontation is the act of someone receiving a word from God, either from Him directly or from His Word, and then taking that message to a specific audience. Quite often (though not always), that message has to do with the confrontation of sin. UNIT FIVE OUTCOMES Upon completion of this unit you should be able to: 1. Examine the outcomes of prophetic confrontation 2. Examine the cultural reaction to prophetic confrontation 3. Examine your own personal reaction to prophetic confrontation 4. Write a sermon modeling prophetic confrontation UNIT FIVE RESOURCES ? Textbook: The Art and Craft of Biblical Preaching ? Media Clip: A Call to Anguish sermon by David Wilkerson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPPmpGFF5jE ? Your Bible —————————————————————————————————————————————- UNIT FIVE ASSIGNMENTS 5.1 TEXT/MEDIA: TEXTBOOK; MEDIA CLIP INTRODUCTION AND ALIGNMENT Our course text has several chapters dealing with the concept of prophetic preaching. These chapters are written from the varying perspectives of their authors. While the reader may have alternate views on the authors’ perspectives, the reader is also wise to consider what the authors are attempting to say about this aspect of preaching which is so often neglected in today’s pulpit. Upon completion of this assignment you should be able to: ? Examine the outcomes of prophetic confrontation. RESOURCES ? Textbook: The Art and Craft of Biblical Preaching ? Media Clip: A Call to Anguish sermon by David Wilkerson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPPmpGFF5jE ? Your Bible BACKGROUND INFORMATION This reading challenges you to speak to your culture in such a way that the message you speak with challenge the ideas, concepts, behavior and values of the world in which you live. Understand that speaking this message will take moral courage, and will come at a cost. Some preachers today are not willing to pay that cost, or may simply not believe in prophetic confrontation- they do not see it as their role. However, any balanced reading of OT or NT scripture will reveal that this type of preaching is at times mandated by God Himself. If we are to be faithful to His message, we must give His message, however unpopular. INSTRUCTIONS 1. Read the textbook, chapters- 23, 39, 52, 67, 103, 126, 149, 178, and 179. 2. View the Media Clip: A Call to Anguish sermon by David Wilkerson. As you listen, take notes on those statements that Wilkerson makes that you believe will impact his audience, whether for good or for ill for use in the coming threaded discussions. —————————————————————————————————————————————- 5.3 THREADED DISCUSSION: CULTURAL REACTION TO PROPHETIC CONFRONTATION INTRODUCTION AND ALIGNMENT In this assignment, we want to view, to the extent possible, Wilkerson’s sermon through the lens of American popular culture. This assignment aligns with the purposes of this course in that it examines how culture might react to this kind of prophetic confrontation. Upon completion of this assignment you should be able to: ? Examine the cultural reaction to prophetic confrontation. RESOURCES ? Media Clip: A Call to Anguish sermon by David Wilkerson https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPPmpGFF5jE BACKGROUND INFORMATION Again, this assignment attempts to view Wilkerson’s message, and indeed any kind of prophetic confrontation, through the lens of American culture. We live in an age today where postmodernism has taken Truth from capital T to small t. In other words, there is no absolute truth in the mind of many Americans, or indeed in the minds of many in the world. If Truth dies, what happens to right and wrong? Who decides what is right and wrong? Who defines the limits on human behavior? INSTRUCTIONS 1. Review the media clip and your notes. 2. For your initial post, contemplate the following : a. If the average unbeliever you know managed to sit through Wilkerson’s sermon, what would be his/her reaction? b. If it were nationally televised, much like the President’s State of the Union address, what would the reaction be? c. If Wilkerson were to espouse these views in your local Starbuck’s, how would he be perceived?
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