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Dunamis Project Events

Dunamis #3 - The Power of Prayer

2012 July (Tue 24 - Sat 27)

Located at St John's College, Nottingham. To enquire about this event please contact Elizabeth Turnbull:

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The format and ethos of Dunamis

Creating a context for learning about and encountering the Holy Spirit

Dunamis is a training and equipping event - a retreat in order to advance! Each Dunamis Project event takes place over 5 days, often with two events each year. It would therefore take two and a half years to complete all six events in a series.

There is a certain style or approach to doing ministry in the power of the Holy Spirit that is embodied in the Dunamis Project. This 'style' comes from our placement in a particular stream of the Christian Faith and the Move of the Holy Spirit. The key elements which create the ethos of Dunamis are:

  1. It is based on a systemic exposition of what the Bible as the Word of God teaches
  2. It is led by the Holy Spirit and lets the Holy Spirit teach and act through our obeying the guidance of the Holy Spirit.
  3. It accepts the present-day operation of the gifts of the Holy Spirit as expressions of the ministry of Jesus Christ and the means of our being equipped to witness to Jesus and to do His work.
  4. It requires a teaching/ministry /leadership team to be submitted to a mutual process of discernment and accountability.
  5. It values human reason and rationality, as well as God speaking today through prophecy and other revelatory gifts, but all are subordinated to God’s final revelation in Jesus Christ as revealed in the Bible.
  6. It intentionally moves from theory to practice -- that is, it moves from teaching into actual ministry in the power of the Holy Spirit.
  7. It favours nurturing the exercise of the spiritual gifts through the body of Jesus Christ rather than dependence on individual anointed leaders who do the ministry.

Manuals

A Dunamis Project Manual is provided for every event. The manuals include expanded outlines of the teaching sessions and are a useful resource in equipping others for ministry in local congregations.

At each retreat the teaching is adapted to suit the circumstances of the participants. Teachers do not work slavishly through the manuals but handle them in flexible manner. Learning best takes place through experience and reflection, and the manuals can always be read through at home.

Transparent accountability

Dunamis leadership teams hold themselves accountable to the participants at every event. There is honesty and vulnerability about personal 'success' and 'failures', and a genuine desire that no-one be guilty of 'manipulation'.

The 'debriefing' sessions play a crucial role in this. They also help create mature discernment towards spiritual activity, rather naive credulity or scepticism.

Gifts, grace and space

Dunamis embraces a full expression of the spiritual gifts for advancing the Kingdom of God. Leadership teams operate on the basis of gifting, and seek to help all participants discover, receive and grow in using whatever gifts the Spirit graciously gives.

Alongside the intensive teaching, Dunamis seeks to give people space to encounter God personally. As well as some free space during the afternoons there may occasionally be breaks in the programme for personal prayer and reflection.