FACULTY OF THEOLOGY

GOVERNMENT OF THE TWELVE. A COMPARISON WITH THE FAMILY WORSHIP CENTER

Miguel Mills

IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS OF THE SUBJECT

CURRENT THEOLOGICAL CURRENTS

BY: OSVALDO M. BAZAN TROCHE

January 14, 2013

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 CONTENT

INTRODUCTION 1

CHAPTER 1 3

EVOLUTION OF THEOLOGICAL THOUGHT

CHAPTER 2 12

ORIGIN OF G12

Negative and Positive of G.12 13

The Family Worship Center 14

Influence of the G12 15

CHAPTER 3 18

THOUGHT OF THE THEOLOGIANS

CHAPTER 4 20

SOCIAL PROBLEM

Hunger 20

Biblical foundation for social action

Results. 21

CHAPTER 5 22

THE GOVERNMENT OF THE 12 IN PARAGUAY

Extension 22

ProjectCFA

Synthesis of the thought of the theologians. 24

CONCLUSION 25

BIBLIOGRAPHY. 26

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 INTRODUCTION

This work discusses the practice of G12 and is a comparison with the Family Center.

Worship, the applied principles favor the restoration of the person.

This topic is very important because it helps us understand how the G12 system works.

Aiming to know about the origin and hermeneutical principles of the G12.

To achieve this objective, a bibliographic research will be conducted using primary sources.

his hypothesis: Bible-based practices on growth favor the

Restoration of the person. The problem statement. Do biblical methods influence the

growth and in the restoration of the person?

The mistakes made by the G 12 should not be applied by churches that want to grow, and

a church of doctrine or organization, in fact, this that the church and the current methods are

different. Help alleviate a social problem that is very large, hunger, if in the church it

analyze. The principles applied by the government of the twelve, in Paraguay the cell churches

cell churches are the ones that exist. Their objective is to determine how the government of the

twelve help in the restoration of the person. To achieve this goal, a

bibliographic research. Based on primary sources. Delimited and organized in the

next form.

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Chapter 1. Evolution of Theological Thought. Discussing the 21st century to the present.

Chapter 2, Origin of the G12. It talks about the origin of the G12, the positive and negative aspects, the Center.

Worship Family, the influence of G 12.

Chapter 3, The thought of the theologians. Barth, and Bonhoeffer.

Chapter 4. The Social Problem, it is about hunger, the biblical foundation for social action.

Chapter 5. The government of the twelve in Paraguay. Its extension, the projects of the CFA, summary

of the thought of the theologians.

 CHAPTER 1

EVOLUTION OF THEOLOGICAL THOUGHT

With the emergence of each new movement or doctrine, the thought of

Conservatives and liberals. However, in this 21st century, it is characterized by three circumstances.

Firstly. The resurgence of a truly universal church, this was achieved

not long ago. In the 20th century, 'The numerical strength of Christianity was in Europe and

in the West. In the 21st century, only a quarter of Christians were European.

In Africa and in Asia there was much colonization. The Catholic Church was weak and sterile, the

Protestantism had few churches. However, everything began to change.

In 1926, Pius XI consecrated the first Chinese bishops; between 1962 and 1965, only 46 of the...

ecclesiastical authorities came from Europe, the United States, and Canada. Almost all churches

they were dependent on the mother churches of the United States or Great Britain.

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Justo L. Gonzalez, Return to the History of Christian Thought, p23.

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What was happening was that the missionary movement of the 19th and 20th centuries was

having success. Although many at the beginning of this 20th century did not realize it, during

In the 19th century, the church had gone through one of the greatest revolutions in its entire history. No longer

It was a Western religion, it had become a world community.

The second event is the end of the Constantinian era. Since his conversion in the century

The church has always existed under favorable conditions, with the support of the State and society.

and of the culture. In the Middle Ages, many Christians lived far away, under Persian rule or

Muslim. During the Reformation, Christians were supported by governments and princes. The

Anabaptists were persecuted by everyone. The third element in the 21st century is decay.

of the prestige of the north, related to the previous points. They humiliated the nations and did not

they kept their promises.

Then the first and second wars appeared, where there was much disappointment.

In the first half of the 20th century, Karl Barth, after the tragedies of the First World War

worldwide, he realized that what he had learned from other theologians was useless.

In Jesus Christ, there is no isolation between God and the human, or between the human and God.

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2. Op Cit., Gonzalez, p.25.

3. John E. Stambach, The New Testament in the Social, p. 145.

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Thus, thesis C appeared, then Bonhoeffer appeared, and one learned to think of others.

terms. Among the German reformers while it was happening, in Sweden the Lutheran tradition

she moved in directions that would lead her to a rediscovery of theology of type c.

The Second World War was followed by the Cold War. The North Atlantic nations continued with their policy, and

they paid little attention to the nations they represented. 'The very policy of deterrence

nuclear means that the Cold War was exported to the world where it manifested in dozens of

not so cold wars with governments and groups supported by one superpower or another. Since

From 1945 to 1965, there were 130 wars in the third world with 35 million dead. The school.

from Lund University, what characterized this school was its rejection of interpretation

received from Luther in the 19th century, according to which Luther was considered one of the main forgers

of modernity and bourgeois liberalism. Then the Second Vatican Council appeared, which

meeting and all the submerged theologies surfaced. The investigations have

impacted the task of individuals and committees that have had in various denominations

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4. John Meier, Antioquia, p. 11

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in charge of the preparation of liturgical materials and the result has been the emergence of all

a series of worship orders, baptismal and Eucharistic practices, and other elements of the

adoration that reflects the theology of type c, and indirectly supports its restoration

Now at the end of modernity, in the field of theology, two alternatives arise, the first

It is to do theology that works, the post-liberal era. "Its rules allow us to say that Something is

wrong or that something is correct, always within the parameters of a linguistic system

the cultural

The return to symbolic interpretation is proposed. Typological interpretation has collapsed.

in the face of the onslaughts of rationalism, pietism, and the historical method. Critical. The theology of

Type C can set the trend for the future.

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5. Ignacio de Antioch, History of Christianity, p.51.

6. F. Loofs, History of Christianity, p.234.

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THREE TYPES OF THEOLOGY

Three theses arose in the development of theology:

First Thesis: 'From the second and third century, types A, B, C emerge.'

Types B and C are the best known, type C is earlier than them.

The first of type A and B are of the orthodox type, although they could refer in their text to

type C ideas

The Second Thesis: With the Christianization of the Roman Empire, type C was forgotten, however the

Type A dominated Western theology, and over time it became confused with orthodoxy.

Over time, there is an amalgamation between type A and B, mainly in the doctrine of God and

Anthropology. Orthodoxy is a mixture of the two: Ay B. In the time of the Reformation, there

I maintained within type A. Over time, any disagreement occurred between A and B.

The theology of C has been forgotten.

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7. Rowan A. Greer, Biblical Interpretation, p.156.

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Third Thesis: There has been a resurgence of certain elements of C-type theology.

The difference between these three types of Theology is not specifically found in a

doctrine or another, but rather in its overall perspective, which is then reflected in each topic

from creation to the final consummation

Type C. Places and Protagonists.

The region of Asia Minor that included Syria, 'which corresponds to Turkey, Syria, and the states

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8. G.Wingren. The theology of Irenaeus, p26.

9. A. Beniot, Biblical Theology of Irenaeus, p.80.

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The main city in this entire region was Antioquia, founded in the year 301 by Selecto I.

Nicator in honor of his father. "It was in Antioch where the followers of Jesus received the

number of Christians"11.The word Christian appears for the first time in the letters of a

bishop of Antioch in the early second century. 'The main exponent of the theology of

Asia Minor and Syria was Irenaeus, the best exponent of C. theology.

Irenaeus employs a vision of salvation that focuses on the history of the incarnate Word of

God, but relate that story to the activity of the verb of creation and in the story of

Israel. From sin, history has continued to develop, but that development

it has become twisted, so that in a certain sense we are monsters. It's as if we had

We are children who due to some accident lost the ability to think and speak, and to

despite this, we continue to grow

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10. Paul Althus, Theology of Martin Luther, p.162.

11. Gustaf Aveen, A Study of History, p. 48.

12. Jaroslav Pelikan, Luther the Expositor, p.70.

13. Adolf Harmack. What is Christianity?, p. 51.

14. David Barret, Encyclopedia of the Christian World, p. 18.

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In the use of the scriptures, according to Irenaeus's interpretation, is the history of relationships.

between God and humanity."15. In that story, despite human sin and the many

times when the people of God have been disobedient, God has been leading his people towards the

final consummation.

From the Reformation, what gave impetus to the discovery of the justification of faith by

Part of Luther's discovery was that sin is much more than a disregard.

that we have contracted before God. His ritual pilgrimage showed him that sin is a

servitude from which humans cannot free ourselves just by wishing it. The way in which

Luther then speaks of the power of demons over human beings and reminds us of what

Irenaeus says about this

The same can be said that Luther sees the work of Christ, which is also a return to themes.

characteristics of type C. Behold above all the victorious Lord who delivers us from the powers that

they had us enslaved.

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15. Stephen Neil, Twentieth Century Christianity, p.8.

Idolatry Nuclear and Peace in the World

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What Luther understands by the word of God is a return to type C. The word of God does not

it is a series of a collection of rules, nor is it a set of eternal doctrines and

immutable. The word of God is God himself in his creative and redemptive action. That is the

word that conquers all the powers of evil, He is the word that is the creative action and

God's liberator

Subsequent Lutheran and Reformed generations lost many of the elements

of type C." 18. That Luther had rediscovered. Protestant orthodoxy, both Lutheran and

Calvinist, reintroduced the major Protestant themes, such as the authority of the

scriptures, justification by faith, and the divine initiative of salvation.

Towards the end of the 19th century, he offered a summary of the fatherhood of God, the universal brotherhood of

All human beings, and the infinite value of the soul

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17. John Knox, The Humanity of God, p. 46.

18. Walter Rauschenbusch, Social Crisis in Christianity, p. 110.

19. Op. Cit. Harnack, p. 51.

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ORIGIN OF G12

The founders are Cesar Castellanos Domínguez and his wife Claudia, senior pastors.

From the International Charismatic Mission, in the city of Bogotá, Colombia.

When the church of 70 people, 200 people is already large and the pastor has no choice.

time to attend to each member in particular. When the group is small, of twelve

people, it is possible to minister to each person's needs.

The number 12 means government, since creation God established twelve months to

to govern each year, the days governed by two periods of twelve hours each.

One month of the year. Jesus wins twelve men in whom he reproduced. Jesus chose, the

I select by divine revelation, after having been in prayer all night,

(Habakkuk 1:13, 14, 1 Kings 4:7, 1 Kings 18:31, 32. Malachi 4:5, 6. In 1995 when visiting the church of

Pastor Cho in Korea, God gave him the vision. Until then they only had 1900.

Cells in Colombia.

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The Family Worship Center was founded by Emilio Abreu and his wife Betania in 1987.

similarity of Pastor David Cho, practice of the Cho system, and if defined as a Church that

works in a team, not like G12, in Asuncion-Paraguay, and is mentioned in the present

work, to make a comparison between both. It is also a cell church. It does not have

links with Cesar Castellanos. Pastor Emilio Abreu had visited Pastor Cho's church in

Korea, where he learned about cellular vision. Currently, the headquarters of the Family Center has

more than 1000 Cells, with 2000 cell leaders.

The Negative and Positive of the G 12

Among the negative things:

The hermeneutics of G.12 is allegorical, decontextualized, and eisegetical.

The foundation on which the G12 is based is formed by the revelations received by the

founder. Its beginning was determined by a prophetic word.

His excessive desire for numerical growth.

Neglect of doctrine in relation to growth.

The strong belief that everyone should be a leader.

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Overvaluation of the number 12.

Inadequate justification and implementation of the established method. It established the four

basic measures for the success of the mission. Four steps. Win, consolidate, disciple, and send.

1 Kings 18:34.

Among the positive things:

The emphasis on winning new people

The interest in the participation of the laity

The desire to disciple

The desire to extend the work of God.

THE FAMILY WORSHIP CENTER

The Hermeneutics used by the Family Worship Center is exegetical, historical–

grammatical, taught in the Biblical Institutes, Isum and Master's of the Assemblies of God.

the doctrine is the same as the ASSEMBLY OF GOD, and all the methods learned from

evangelism, they added the cell strategy, which aims to consolidate the

new people, preparing people for ministry.

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Its beginnings occur when Emilio Abreu holds home gatherings in the Jara neighborhood, where he

Many people are converted, in 1987 an evangelistic campaign is held on the avenue.

Spain. All this in obedience to the biblical mandate to preach the gospel to every creature.

Alongside growth, it indoctrinates its disciples in its school of leaders and for greater

training, has its theological seminar called school of ministry. It does not exist

overvaluation of the number 12, it is not a G 12 church.

Not everyone should be leaders. The Bible teaches that there are leaders to fulfill various ministries.

but not everyone will be leaders to teach or preach. There are people who can engage in

other ministries. There is constant training for their leaders.

Practice the ladder of success: win, consolidate, disciple, and send.

INFLUENCE OF G12

Very little is known about Cesar Castellanos in Paraguay. The Family Worship Center,

is based on the principles supported by the experience of Pastor Cho from Korea.

Principles based on the word of God. The Hermeneutics used in Paraguay in the

Assembly of God is Historical.. Grammatical, attending to the Hermeneutical principles based

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Every work must be founded on divine revelation and may there always be a word.

prophetic. Every prophetic revelation must be received according to the word. Ephesians 4:11 and 12

He speaks that God established ministries for the building up of the believer.

God wants His work to grow. God brings growth. 1 Cor.

Those who do not seek to win souls are people who do not understand God. There are 7,000,000,000.

people who are going to hell if they are not paid attention to.

Some want to earn 30, others 70, and a few 100. God calls them useless servants.

that do not grow.

The books from the school of life of the Family Worship Center are full of doctrines of

the Assemblies of God.

Those who are going to be leaders must be approved by the cell leader, based on the

spiritual growth, behavior, and knowledge. Not everyone can be leaders.

Since 1987, a spiritual revolution begins in Paraguay. A campaign is carried out.

Evangelism in Paraguay and the construction of the first temple begins. For 10,000 people.

Working primarily with household groups, approximately 1600.

From the household groups, it shifts to the cellular system. With 33 sustained and 2000 workers.

In 2011, the new temple was inaugurated where 50,000 people attend, with programs

for all ages, with cells in the houses, with disciples currently preparing in
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the school of life, a temple to have 4 activities at the same time, has always emphasized

the quality, satisfaction of the member's needs, where teamwork is also involved.

He currently has his own seminar, with the motto Paraguay for Christ at the beginning, with 18

subsidiaries, schools, with university projects, radio and television projects, Last year the

The mayor of Asunción handed over 5 institutions for the church to manage.

eat the children.

God tells Emilio Abreu to build a temple for 20,000 people.

Today the slogan has changed, now it is Paraguay for Christ and the nations.

With a network of churches with more than 300 associates.

The G12 practiced by Cesar Castellanos is not applied by the majority. It is a cellular vision.

from Pastor Cho.

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THOUGHT OF THE THEOLOGIANS

Barth

In the first half of the twentieth century, Barth had studied with one of the most famous theologians.

liberals of their time, but in the midst of the tragedies of the First World War they discovered

that what he had learned with them was not very useful in his efforts to serve as

pastor and to take into account the bitter realities of life. I reject the easy liberalism of

the following generations. Over time, he began to think about concentration

Christological, arriving at the conclusion that it was necessary to think in different terms both

of God as of the human. In Jesus Christ, there is no isolation between God and the human, and the

human and God, on the other hand, we encounter the history, with the dialogue, in which God and he

humans meet and mutually join agreed, preserved, and fulfilled by both.

It is clear that at this point we are getting close to much of what has been seen in the

the theology of Irenaeus, history as the context, the only context of divine revelation.

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Bonhoeffer.

A good part of contemporary theology learned to think in terms of how Everything

the secularization of God in Jesus Christ must lead us to see the action of God in the

secular history events, this indicates that the theology of the Reformed tradition

he was placing the story back at the center of his considerations, a type c call.

Bonhoeffer, during his visit to the United States, attends a church and participates in the meetings.

from small groups, to preserve their faith.

The third thesis says. In recent times, due to various circumstances, there has been a

the resurgence of certain elements of type c theology, this can be seen in movements

as disparate as the renewal of Reformed theology through Karl Barth, the new

currents of Lutheranism arising from Lund theology, liturgical renewal, the second

Vatican Council and the various liberation theologians.

The rediscovery of type C opens unexpected frontiers in the biblical message and results in

particularly valuable in our Latin American situation. A theology must be developed

c, more faithful to the biblical text.

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SOCIAL PROBLEM

Hunger

One of the biggest problems today is that in every temple in the center

Worship family, there are many families with limited resources, many children do not have

to eat, this requires a solution. Hunger is not just a problem of the present but

also of the future.

FOUNDATION.

Jesus fed 4000 and on another occasion 5000. Once the people come to the

cells, they are helped with food baskets, clothes. They are given work. Guidance is provided.

spiritually,

The biblical foundation for social action:

1. A more complete doctrine of God. He is interested in all humanity and human life in

all its facets and in its complexity (Gn 1:31, 1Ti 4:4).

The living God is the God of creation but also of the covenant, of justice and of

justification (Ex. 34:6).

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A more comprehensive doctrine of man.

The higher the value placed on the human being, the greater the desire to serve him.

3. A more complete doctrine of the historical and biblical Christ.

A more complete doctrine of salvation.

Salvation should not be separated from the Kingdom, nor should the Savior Jesus be separated from the Lord Jesus.

Love must not be separated from faith.

A more comprehensive doctrine of the church.

On one hand it is a holy people, and on the other hand it is a worldly people, for it is sent from

around the world, to testify and serve.

Bonhoeffer uses the expression: 'holy mundanity of the church.'

RESULTS

There are Bible classes with children, teenagers, and adults. The conversion of many

people who were never given importance..

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THE GOVERNMENT OF THE TWELVE IN PARAGUAY.

EXTENSION.

Some churches of the Assembly of God. Many from the Church of God, Mennonites, Baptists.

they have joined to apply the cells.

Only the Family Center has 22 branches and supports several missionaries internationally.

It has churches in Chile, Brazil, Spain, the United States, Argentina. The G12 of Cesar Castellano does not.

It is practiced in Paraguay. If the cellular vision of Pastor Cho.

CFA PROJECT

BACKGROUND

Causes of the abandonment of social awareness:

It was a reaction to the theological liberalism that had penetrated the churches of

Europe and the United States.

2 - The evangelicals reacted to the social gospel they were beginning to formulate.

the liberal theologians.

3- The hopelessness and pessimism of World War I.

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4- The premillennialist theory of J.N. Derby and Scofield, the earth would be restored only in

the millennium, before nothing could be improved.

The gospel spread only among the middle class, who diluted it in an attempt

to assimilate it into their own culture.

DESCRIPTION OF THE PROBLEM.

Many neglect the commandments that God has for the needy. One must

to have social aid projects, a social gospel must be applied.

JUSTIFICATION.
Needs exist, just as the poor do. Social assistance must be fulfilled if this

They will never hear the gospel.

OBJECTIVES.
Establish permanent dining areas in different locations of ASUNCION.
Implement a system of cells in the dining halls.

GOALS
In the short term: February 2013-
In the long term: in all the Family Center churches, apply the dining areas and the assistance.
social.

RESPONSIBLE
Pastor and workers

Furthermore:

That each church of the CFA fund permanent dining halls.

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. Look for work for its members.

In each cell, the leaders take care of each need.

Let the first fruits be collected every month in the church and in the cells, for the needy.

Carry out projects to receive funds, goods, with cooperatives, public prosecutors, institutions
of the State.

SYNTHESIS OF THOUGHT AND INFLUENCE OF THEOLOGIANS

BARTH,

One must have and apply a theology with new, understandable terms that is useful. That

solve the problems.

BONHOEFFER.

The secularization of God in Jesus Christ should lead us to see the action of God in the

events of secular history, God intervenes in the present of man.

When BONHOEFFER traveled to the United States, he participated in a church, to preserve

His values and I participate in small groups.

 CONCLUSION

After having researched and reflected, the following conclusions have been reached-

Barth is a highly influential theologian because he established important principles such as

Theology should be written in new terms, not disconnected from historical reality.

why

It has to provide solutions to the problems of human beings, not a bunch of rituals and

Ceremonies that are sterile.

Bonhoeffer. The secularization of God in Jesus Christ must lead us to know and see God.

intervening in human history. Regarding the application of contemporary theology, it

It can be stated that sound doctrine will endure through time and that it will change things.

that do not please God from society, that do not align with the commandments of

GOD.

The government of the twelve does not exist in Paraguay, the Family Worship Center is a

church that practices cell vision, and works as a team. Social assistance is fundamental for

restore the person in their entirety. The government of the 12 is not prohibited by the Council of

the Assemblies of God in Paraguay.

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