Cultural Transformers Kris Vallotton

DVD Session 2002

Session Outline: My Notes:

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I. Become the Message (0:00 minutes)
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A. The Call
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1. Our goal is to raise up world-class leaders, sent into
every realm of society: cultural transformers. ___________________________
B. Three Areas of Study ___________________________
1. Leadership ___________________________
2. Government ___________________________
3. Management
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C. Four Life-Changing Experiences
___________________________
1. Salvation: receiving Jesus
2. Marriage and family ___________________________
3. Internal transformation ___________________________
4. Most recent trip ___________________________
a. Now speaker must discover what to do with a ___________________________
nation that was handed to him.
___________________________
• Example: dog chasing car
___________________________
D. An Army of Imagineers
1. This army will… ___________________________
a. Think of things that have never been thought of ___________________________
before in history. ___________________________
b. See things as they should be. ___________________________
c. Call things as though they are.
___________________________
2. Josephs, Daniels and Esthers will rise up from this
___________________________
school and go out all over the world.
a. Example: Log College ___________________________
• Expectation of true greatness ___________________________
3. Graduates will be known for having the greatest ___________________________
minds, revolutionaries who change the world. ___________________________
a. Be known not by what or who you are against,
___________________________
but by your creative ideas and answers.
___________________________
b. Raise up a generation that can think.
___________________________
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___________________________ II. Leaders In Society (10:23)

___________________________ A. Christians Have the Advantage
1. Christian leaders agreed on these beliefs:
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a. We have the mind of Christ (I Corinthians 2:16).
___________________________
b. We are seated in heavenly places
___________________________ (Ephesians 2:6, Revelation 4:1).
___________________________ c. There is a gift of wisdom (I Corinthians 12:8).
___________________________ d. The least in God’s kingdom is greater than John
___________________________ the Baptist (Matthew 11:11).
2. Speaker then asked leaders that if they truly
___________________________
believed these things to be true, why Christians were
___________________________
not leading in every area of society.
___________________________ a. If these truths are realities and not just
___________________________ theologies, it is illogical for Christians not to be
___________________________ leading in every area of society.
___________________________ B. Breakthrough In Many Areas
1. Today we are experiencing more miracles in healing
___________________________
at Bethel than we were 30 years ago.
___________________________
a. We still have a long way to go, but we are far
___________________________ advanced from where we were.
___________________________ 2. We want to see the same kind of advancement in
___________________________ intelligence and wisdom.
___________________________ a. Examples: Solomon’s wisdom, Samson’s
strength
___________________________
b. We want the Holy Spirit to move on us in
___________________________
wisdom, intelligence, visions, and dreams.
___________________________ c. Bethel students will be known for being great
___________________________ leaders; thinking outside of religious, political and
___________________________ constraining boxes.
___________________________ • You have permission to think.
3. If we became what the Bible says we are, the
___________________________
contrast (to the world) would be so inspiring that
___________________________
evangelism would be easy.
___________________________ C. Why We Are Not Yet World Leaders
___________________________ 1. Thoughts in denominational wineskins are enemies
___________________________ to that wineskin.
___________________________ a. Thoughts cause opinions.
b. Opinions can cause conflicts.
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c. Conflicts destroy the denominational family, ___________________________

because it is based on agreement. ___________________________
d. Therefore, religion has taken the place of
___________________________
revelation.
___________________________
2. The religious and political spirits are locking up the
greatest minds of our time. ___________________________
a. The religious and political spirits are related to ___________________________
each other. ___________________________
b. The leaven of Herod and the leaven of the ___________________________
Pharisees (Mark 8:15) have created a culture that
___________________________
punishes those who think.
___________________________
c. People are forced to say things that everyone
knows are not true. ___________________________
3. Begin thinking as God would have us think. ___________________________
a. The greatest inventions, innovations and ___________________________
answers to world problems are just a thought ___________________________
away.
___________________________
D. Develop a Culture for Thinking
___________________________
1. You could teach the principalities and powers the
wisdom from another age (Ephesians 3:10). ___________________________
2. We still hold to the Bible as our foundation. ___________________________
a. Dream as no one has dreamt before, still having ___________________________
your core values in the Bible. ___________________________
3. Hebrews 6:1-2 “Therefore leaving the elementary
___________________________
teaching about the Christ, let us press on to maturity,
___________________________
not laying again a foundation of repentance from dead
works and of faith toward God, of instruction about ___________________________
washings and laying on of hands, and the resurrection ___________________________
of the dead and eternal judgment.” ___________________________
a. Repeating again and again what has already ___________________________
been said and what is already in your foundation is
___________________________
not growing.
___________________________
4. We are not talking about crazy thinking, but having
solutions to real problems. ___________________________
a. Encourage thinking and dreaming, but hold it in ___________________________
tension with accountability. ___________________________
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___________________________ III. Transitioning Epoch Seasons (26:42)

___________________________ A. Understand the Times
1. “In a time of drastic change it is the learners who
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inherit the future. The learned usually find themselves
___________________________
equipped to live in a world that no longer exists.”
___________________________ Eric Hoffer (1902-1983)
___________________________ 2. Proverbs 25:11 “Like apples of gold in settings of
___________________________ silver is a word spoken in right circumstances.”
___________________________ 3. Epoch season – means “a way in which God deals
with a certain people in a certain time”
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4. We must become like the sons of Issachar who
___________________________
understood the times and what Israel should do in the
___________________________ times (I Chronicles 12:32).
___________________________ 5. Changing times need a new song, a new vision; we
___________________________ need to change with changing times.
___________________________ B. Infrastructure For Transition
1. Anachronistic – means “living out of time”
___________________________
a. Example: Mercedes car and ox cart
___________________________
b. Live in the present with present prophetic
___________________________ declarations and mindsets.
___________________________ • Example: Ford car “Edsel”
___________________________ 2. Infrastructure is needed to support what is new.
___________________________ a. Example: advent of automobiles
b. There were bad roads, no gas stations.
___________________________
3. Transition takes time.
___________________________
a. Example: ox carts to automobiles
___________________________ 4. Though what is new is better than what is old,
___________________________ infrastructure is necessary to maintain what is new.
___________________________ 5. Transition is not easy.
___________________________ a. People may say your new idea is not right when
problems arise.
___________________________
b. They may create a theology against it.
___________________________
___________________________ IV. Denominationalism to Apostleship (35:34)
___________________________ A. Government and Leadership
___________________________ 1. Government is the structure in which governors
___________________________ govern.
2. Leadership is the art of governing.
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a. Example: governors are cars; governments are ___________________________

roads, gas stations, and tire and repair shops. ___________________________
3. Great governors (like cars) will not go anywhere
___________________________
without great government (like roads).
___________________________
B. From Denominationalism to Apostleships
1. Apostles emerged in denominations. ___________________________
2. These apostles (cars) were not doing what the ___________________________
apostles in the Bible were doing, because they did not ___________________________
have a correct government (roads) in which to operate. ___________________________
3. As a result, the apostles (cars) were redefined.
___________________________
a. Because the apostles (cars) had no correct
___________________________
infrastructure (gas), denominations were pulling
the apostles (horses were pulling the cars). ___________________________
b. Apostles were defined by a fancy ___________________________
denominational idea (like a fancy buggy being ___________________________
pulled by horses). ___________________________
• The result was not biblical.
___________________________
C. Importance of Infrastructure
___________________________
1. Apostle –- means “culturally transforming where you
are sent to be like where you came from” ___________________________
a. An apostolic prayer is, “Thy will be done on ___________________________
earth as it is in heaven.” ___________________________
2. Our job is to build this infrastructure (like gas ___________________________
stations and roads).
___________________________
a. Example: 100 year old grandmother
___________________________
• There has been more transition in the last
100 years than in all of recorded history. ___________________________
D. Founding Fathers of New Epoch Season ___________________________
1. Think what you could change over 100 years. ___________________________
2. Over the last 30 years, we added ten years to our ___________________________
life expectancy. Over the next 50 years, 100 years old
___________________________
could be young.
___________________________
3. You could be founding fathers of our next epoch
season. ___________________________
4. God wants to do more than you ask or think ___________________________
(Ephesians 3:20). ___________________________
a. Your heart can take you places your head ___________________________
cannot go.
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___________________________ • Your mind will only take you places you can
___________________________ think.
b. Your heart can take you places you never
___________________________
dreamed.
___________________________
• Dreams live beyond laws.
___________________________ 5. We can give our children a world in revival.
___________________________ a. Example: the kingdom in a nation
___________________________ 6. Imagine how the kingdom would look on earth.
___________________________ a. We would still have choices.

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Speaker prays for students’ eyes/hearts to be enlightened.
___________________________
___________________________ 7. “Arise, shine; for your light has come” (Isaiah 60:1).
___________________________ 8. Jesus came to enlighten everyone (John 1:4-5).

___________________________ 9. God’s glory will rise upon us (Isaiah 60:1-19).

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Speaker releases a revelatory anointing (45:12 end).
___________________________
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___________________________ Review Questions:

___________________________ 1. What is the definition of an Imagineer? What three

___________________________ things describe someone who is in the Army of
___________________________ Imagineers?

___________________________ An Imagineer is a cultural transformer, a world-class leader

who thinks of things never before thought, who sees things
___________________________
as they should be, and who calls things that are not as
___________________________ though they are.
___________________________
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___________________________ 2. If we have the mind of Christ, are seated in heavenly

___________________________ places, have the gift of wisdom and are greater than
John the Baptist, what is keeping Christians from
___________________________
becoming world-class leaders?
___________________________ New thoughts are enemies to denominational wineskins
___________________________ because thoughts lead to opinions that can cause conflict.
___________________________ Denominations suppress thoughts (stifling Christians from
___________________________ succeeding in leadership) to maintain their unity, but this

___________________________ has replaced revelation with religion.

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3. What is the purpose of infrastructure in regard to ___________________________

transitioning in Epoch seasons? ___________________________
Just as with the advent of cars, an infrastructure was need-
___________________________
ed (such as roads, gas stations and repair shops) so the car
___________________________
could be used efficiently, so an infrastructure needs to be in
place so the apostolic can flourish and the kingdom of God ___________________________
in all its manifestations can operate here on earth. ___________________________
___________________________
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4. Explain what an apostle does.
___________________________
An apostle is one who is sent out and is to transform the
___________________________
place to which he is sent to be like the place from which he
came. ___________________________
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Discussion & Activation:
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1. Take an hour and find some place to be alone. ___________________________
Consider this hour your permission to think! Get into ___________________________
God’s presence. You may do this through worship with ___________________________
music, prayer or meditation. Then quiet yourself before ___________________________
Him and see what thoughts He gives you concerning an
___________________________
area of culture that needs transformation. Write down
___________________________
the ideas God gives to you.
___________________________
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2. Bring your notes from the previous exercise and share
them in a small group. Notice what cultural situations ___________________________
arise and what new thoughts come from your fellow ___________________________
students. ___________________________
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3. Out of your discussion, see if there is any step you can ___________________________
take to begin bringing about change in a particular situ- ___________________________
ation, and take that step, however small.
___________________________
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All Scripture quotations, unless otherwise indicated, are taken
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from the New American Standard Bible®, Copyright © 1960,
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1962, 1963, 1968, 1971, 1972, 1973, 1975, 1977, 1995 by The
Lockman Foundation. Used by permission. (www.Lockman.org) ___________________________
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