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Strategy For Holy Week Incarnational Evangelism For The West Puerto Rico Conference Of Seventh-Day Adventists

Efren Pagan

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ABSTRACT

STRATEGY FOR HOLY WEEK INCARNATIONAL EVANGELISM
FOR THE WEST PUERTO RICO CONFERENCE
OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

By
Efrén Pagán

Advisor: Elias G. Gómez

ABSTRACT OF GRADUATE STUDENT RESEARCH
Project Report

Andrews University
Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary

TITLE: STRATEGY FOR HOLY WEEK INCARNATIONAL EVANGELISM
FOR THE WEST PUERTO RICO CONFERENCE OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

Name of researcher: Efren Pagan Name and degree of faculty adviser: Elias G. Gomez, D.Min. Date completed: July 1988

Problem

Most of the people living in Puerto Rico claim or are claimed to be Catholics by the Catholic leadership of the Island. Most of them have only a form of religion, having lost sight of the power of Christ's religion. They need to be led back to Christ, even though they are unconscious of their situation or of their spiritual need.

Method

Each person is unique, but some characteristics are similar to most of the people in a specific group. Catholics constitute a large group in Puerto Rico. To reach them,

one must understand them and approach them in the proper way. With this in mind, incarnational evangelism should be done, and Holy Week is the most advantageous time of the year to do it.

Results

Holy Week is the best time of the year to bring Catholics to public evangelistic meetings. Holy Week evangelism has also proved to be the most effective method for bringing them into the evangelical community of believers in Christ. For several years Holy Week has been the time of year when more people from a Catholic background have been baptized into the Seventh-day Adventist church in the West Puerto Rico Conference.

Conclusions

The West Puerto Rico Conference of Seventh-day
Adventists should adopt a standard and permanent plan for evangelism during Holy Week. This means six to seven months of aggressive evangelism, enough to reach the baptismal goals of the whole year. The rest of the year could be dedicated to a follow-up program on behalf of the new converts.1

•^Even when a follow-up program to evangelism is extremely important, its consideration is not within the scope of this project.

Andrews University
Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary

STRATEGY FOR HOLY WEEK INCARNATIONAL EVANGELISM
FOR THE WEST PUERTO RICO CONFERENCE
OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

A Project Report
Presented in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirement for the Degree
Doctor of Ministry

by

Efren Pagan July 1988

Copyright by Efrén Pagan All Rights Reserved

STRATEGY FOR HOLY WEEK INCARNATIONAL EVANGELISM
FOR THE WEST PUERTO RICO CONFERENCE
OF SEVENTH-DAY ADVENTISTS

A Project Report presented in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree
Doctor of Ministry

By
Efren Pagan

APPROVAL BY THE COMMITTEE:

DEDICATION

After several years of study and practice, I feel a debt of gratitude to God for the results reached. To His glory this project is dedicated and to the benefit of all those beloved Catholic people who could be saved as a result of accepting the true Gospel of Jesus Christ.

iii

TABLE OF CONTENTS

LIST OF TABLES ...................................... viii

LIST OF FIGURES....... x
LIST OF ABREVIATIONS.............................. •• xi

  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ...............
  • xii

Chapter

  • I. INTRODUCTION.............
  • 1

Justification of the Project..................

Purpose........ ...............................

Scope of the Project...........................

Limitations....................................

Definitions of Terms...................
15578

II. THE PRINCIPLE OF INCARNATIONAL EVANGELISM...
9

Introduction...................................

Christ's Incarnation........................

99
Dimensions.

.................................. 10

Necessity................................

Purpose.....................................

Incarnational Evangelism........
11 12 14 14 17 19 22
The Principle of Evangelism................ A New Testament Concept....................

Necessity...................................

Purpose.....................................

Aspects That Should Be Taken into
Consideration.............................
What Does It Consist Of....................
24 25
Paul's Example............................

.

• 30
38

How Should One Do It?......................

Limitations.................................

The Place of the Holy Spirit...............

Conclusion...........

42 43 44

III. UNDERSTANDING AND RELATING TO PEOPLE

  • FROM A CATHOLIC BACKGROUND................
  • 45

45 47

The Challenge..................................

Reasons for a Strategy to Reach Them with

the Gospel..................................

General Characteristics........................ 50

iv

Classifications................................

Understanding Catholics.......................

Movement of Members within the
55 57

Catholic Church.............................
How to Approach Catholics.....................
Make Contact with Them..................... Live What You Teach and Preach............. Devolop Good Characteristics............... Assume a Correct Attitude.................. Present a Sound Doctrine...................

Be Practical...............................

The Problem of Prejudice against the
63 76 76 78 79 80 84 87

Evangelist................................

.

90

  • 90
  • Definition of Prejudice....................

The Necessity for Recognizing Prejudice.... 91

Types.......................................

Causes...................................... Results.....................................

92 92 93
How It Is Revealed.......................... 94 Common Prejudices against Protestants.....

How to Approach Prejudice..................

Conclusion.....................................

94 95 97

IV. ORIGIN, DEVELOPMENT, TRADITION AND ACTUAL
OBSERVANCE OF HOLY WEEK AMONG CATHOLICS IN

PUERTO RICO......................

99

Introduction...................................

Background.....................................

The Liberation of the People of Israel from the Egyptian Bondage................

Passover....................................

Purposes of the Passover.................
The Passion Week of the Lord Jesus
99
100

100 101 104

Christ..........................

106
Importance of the Passion Week Events.... 110
The Celebration of Holy Week..................

Importance..................................

Purposes...................................

Origen......................................

The Observance of Holy Week.............. The Quartodeciman Controversy............

Events...........................

112 113 117 119 121 121 126 126 127 127
Before the Council of Nicaea............. After the Concil of Nicaea...............

Traditional Events.......................

Impact of Holy Week as Seen through Mass
Media and Religious Meetings.......
132

Press........................................ 133

Television................................

.

. 133
Cinemas and Theater......................... 133 Video Clubs......

,..........................

136 136

Radio.......................................

Religious Meetings.......................... 137

v

Conclusion.....................................

138 139
V. A STRATEGY FOR HOLY WEEK PUBLIC
INCARNATIONAL EVANGELISM......................

Introduction...............

139 140 140 141 141 142 142 142
Some Methods of Public Evangelism.............

Small Groups................................

Public Evangelistic Lectures...............

Bible Class.................................

Baptismal Class.........................

Combination of Methods.....................
Why Choose Holy Week?....... Objectives for the Evangelistic Celebration

of Holy Week................................

How to Reach Catholics.....................
Two Stages in Holy Week Public Evangelism....

First Stage................................. Second Stage................................

Some Examples...............................

How to Bring Catholics to Public
144 144 145 145 151 153

  • Evangelistic Meetings..................
  • 154

Venerated Personalities among Catholics...... 160
The Blessed Virgin Mary.................... Saint Joseph..................
160 162 164 169

The Apostle Peter..........................

Church Fathers...... ............

.

..

.......

Deuterocanonicals........................... 169
A Plan for Holy Week Evangelism...............
Preparation for the First Stage. ...... First Stage or Lent Evangelism............. Preparation for the Second Stage...........

Second Stage...........................

170 170 172 174 176 177
Special Dates for Fasting and Prayer......
Special Activities for the Evangelistic
Celebration of Holy Week...................

Palm Sunday................................. Holy Monday.................................

Holy Tuesday................................

Holy Wednesday..............................

178 178 184 185 185
Maundy Thursday............................. 186

Good Friday..............................

Holy Saturday............................... Easter Sunday...............................

Additional Suggestions....................
187 189 189 190

I. EVALUATION, SUMMARY, AND CONCLUSION..........
191

Summary..............

Evaluation.....................................

Conclusion.....................................

191 192 197

vi

APPENDIXES............................................ 199
1. Implications of Incarnational Evangelism.. 200 2. Events of the Lord's Week of Passion:

  • A Harmony of the Gospels..................
  • 207

3. Holy Week Evangelism: Handbills.......... 218 4. Bible Study: Jesus' Brothers and Sisters

  • and Mary's Sons and Daughters.............
  • 224

229
5. Selected Declarations from Church Fathers and Other Prominent Catholic Authors.....

6. Brief Concordance to the Deuterocanonicals 233 7. Holy Week Evangelism: Several Forms for

  • Planning and Promotion....................
  • 242

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY................................ 252 VITA.................................................. 265

vii

LIST OF TABLES

1. 1978 Gallup Poll: Reasons for Dropping Out.... 66

2. Types of Dropouts...............................

3. Predispositions for Dropouts...................
67 68
4. Facilitating Persons or Relationships

for Dropouts....................................

69 70 72
5. Facilitating Events for Dropouts............... 6. Predispositions for Returnees and Converts.... 7. Facilitating Persons or Relationship for Returnees and Converts.........

...........

73
8. Facilitating Events for Returnees and Converts. 74 9. Passover and Feast of Unleavened Bread........
102

107 134
10. Passover, Feast of Unleavened Bread, and The Lord's Week of Passion.................

11. Celebration of Holy Week in Puerto Rico:
Impact Made on Press-1985......................

12. Options for Holy Week Public Evangelism:
First Stage-Lectures, Indirect Method.......... 146

13. Options for Holy Week Public Evangelism:

  • First Stage-Lectures, Direct Method............
  • 147

149
14. Options for Holy Week Public Evangelism:
First Stage-Small Group Meetings...............

15. Options for Holy Week Public Evangelism:
First Stage-Bible Class......................... 150

16. Options for Holy Week Public Evangelism:
First Stage-Baptismal Class....................

17. Options for Holy Week Public Evangelism:
150
Second Stage-Lectures, Indirect Method......... 152

viii

18. Options for Holy Week Public Evangelism:
Second Stage-Lectures, Direct Method..........
152

19. Holy Week Public Evangelism: Time Table....... 155 20. Holy Week Public Evangelism: Time Table

for the Evangelist..............................

156 162
21. Biblical Terms Used in Relation to

the Virgin Mary.................................

22. Concordance to the Virgin Mary's Positive

Example.......................................

.

• 163
23. Concordance to Peter's Teaching and Example.... 165 24. Example of the First Few Lectures While
Following the Indirect Method of

  • Public Evangelism...................
  • 173

175
25. Dates for Ash Wednesday, Palm Sunday, and Easter Sunday until AD 2000................

26. Blank Form for the Forty-day Plan of
Fasting and Prayer.............................. 179

27. Holy Week Public Evangelism: Chain of Prayer
Form............................................. 181

28. Summary of the Preparation Needed for
Holy Week Public Evangelism....................
182 196 198
29. Holy Week Public Evangelism: West Puerto Rico
Conference of SDA-Baptisms.....................

30. West Puerto Rico Conference of SDA: Dropouts

and Church Growth...............................

IX

LIST OF FIGURES

1. Dropouts:Age of Dropping Out.................... 65 2. Returnees: Age of Returnees.................. 3. Returnees: Age of Dropping Out................ 4. Converts: Age for Joining the Church.........
71 71 75

x

LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

ANF FC
The Ante-Nicene Fathers The Fathers of the Church The Librarv of Christian Classics Seventh-day Adventists
LCC SDA

xx

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

I owe a debt of gratitude to God who gave me the privilege and allowed me the time and opportunity to develop this project. I also am in debt to Gloria, my wife, who has supported me patiently even though I was not at home for many hours, days, weeks, and even months. My parents, Pedro and Irene, brought me constant stimulus to go ahead, to study, and to complete the requirements for the degree. Elder Fred Hernández encouraged me also to continue graduate studies, as did Dr. Salim Japas. Some professors of the Seventh-day Adventist Theological Seminary also provided orientation. Among them, I must acknowledge Drs. Werner and Nancy Vhymeister, Dr. Garth Thompson, Dr. Elias Gómez, Dr. Douglas Kilcher, and Dr. C. Raymond Holmes. Dr. Salim Japas also generously helped me. Finally, I am grateful to the West Puerto Rico Conference of the Seventhday Adventists who supported the project in many ways. Thanks!

Xll

CHAPTER I
INTRODUCTION

The Christian church exists for a Divinely appointed purpose: to preach the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ to the multitudes lost in sin. This is its mission. The fulfilling of this mission is the task that must occupy most of its time. The church needs to design plans and put into practice the best strategies in order to reach all kinds of people.

Justification of the Project
Five facts justify this project:

  • 1.
  • Puerto Rican people are mainly Catholic.1 As

such, most are nominal Christians. Most of them go to church just once or twice a year, and this occurs mostly during Holy Week. They seem to be more open to religion during those days. This is partly due to a strong tradition established deep in their hearts.2* For this reason one must take advantage of this opportunity to try to reach

^■World Christianity, ed. Clifton L. Holand (Monrovia,
CA: Missions Advanced Research and Communication Center, 1979), vol. 4, Central America and the Caribbean, 199.

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