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Sermon Outlines/Handouts Transforming Grace: Becoming Something We Have Never Been Before In Christ - .doc Pastor's Notes - .doc Repent, Believe, Receive - .doc
Lifestyle Training Materials Preparing to Teach - A simple "How To" on biblical teaching perspective. A Healthy Life Matrix - .ppt Crucified with Christ - .ppt Church Planting Philosophy of Ministry - .doc or .pdf Major Projects Identity Crosses: Not I But Christ - A presentaton created when I was a guest speaker for a Southern Baptist Convention Youth Rally for The Greater Huntington, WV area. 2007 PowerPoint presentation. Download 2007 PP player here. Also download the "chiller" font file that is required here. Some reformatting may be required after file transfer. Dark Night of the Soul - A PowerPoint presentation of St. John of the Cross's Dark Night of the Soul with music by Loreena McKennit Pride and Joy: The Philippians Project - a 100 MB download of a PowerPoint presentation of the book of Philippians to be taught as an Expository Worship Experience Pride and Joy: The Philippians Project Program - An educational program handout created for The Philippians Project in .pdf |
Newsletters
The Power of God: Healthy Faith By The Spirit vs. Manipulated Folk Faith The Faith: Falling Away Gracelessly The God of Peace: Not As The World Gives Do I Give To You The Mask of the Great Deceivers: How Maturity in Christ Deals with Hypocrisy in the Church Evangelism in the 21st Century: Count It All Joy When It is Not A Joke
Scripture Memory Cards Prepared for Discipleship Training Crucified With Christ - .doc Growing Faith 1 - .doc Growing Faith 2 - .doc Growing Faith 3 - .doc |
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Personality Profiles of Gary Hinchman
DiSC Personality Profile - Direct, Decisive, Driven Meyers-Briggs Personality Profile - ENFJ
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Gary Hinchman Outsourced, Atlanta, GA |
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1978 - B.A. in History 1982 - Th.M. in New Testament Literature and Exegesis 1987 - Certified Walk Thru the Bible Trainer 1995 – 2002 - Instructional Designer in Various Educational Media |
Marshall University, Huntington,WV Dallas Theological Seminary, Dallas, TX Walk-Thru the Bible Ministries, Atlanta, GA Software Trainer/Manager, Video Writer/Producer, and Corporate Instructional Trainer in the Atlanta, GA area |
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I am divorced for 14 years now (since 1995) and at 56, caring for my parents in their 70s [My mother has Alzheimer's at 76 and my step-father has loss of memory with Type 2 Diabetes]. Having a church to care for would help me attend to my parents in the elder years while focusing on my hearts desire – discipleship, preaching, teaching, and education in the church. I am needed at home during the week until an income producing job can afford to replace me. I am an only child without brothers and sisters to help. I have a daughter and son-in-law in Summersville, WV who has given me a wonderful little grandson, Keegan, and there is another grandchild on the way. They are attending school, working, and establishing a family in their 20s. |
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Hobbies Music and Guitar – I have played guitar since I was 18 and enjoy it. I enjoy traditional and contemporary Christian music – classical and modern styles. |
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Ministry A Heart for Godliness I believe that leadership by the Holy Spirit through scripture can equip any and all men and women to become as godly as God himself will make them in their whole being of spirit, soul and body [1 Thessalonians 5:23] through intimacy with Him. Godliness affects the human spirit with power, love, and discipline [2 Timothy 1:7]. Godliness affects the soul [mind, emotion and will] so that any believer from the poorest of the poor and/or uneducated can have a renewed mind, mature feelings, and an increasingly responsible will to please God and others. God will make the lowest of men and women into the image of His Son, whom he has elevated above all things. Therefore, all Christians are to become in their maturity keen thinkers, deep feelers, and consistent actors to the glory of the God who delivers them from ignorance of mind, hardness of heart, and the inconsistent actions of a rebellious flesh [Ecclesiastes 9:3; Romans 12:1-2; Ephesians 4:17-24; 2 Peter 1:2-4]. Godly Mentors and Leaders Throughout History Christian growth comes through a healthy self-reflection before God and others with brokenness. I grew up in conservative Baptist churches but I did not trust Christ until reading Hal Lindsey’s book Satan is Alive and Well on the Planet Earth in 1972. In Chapter 12, titled “The Guilt Trip” he explains the power of the cross to forgive and it is then that I understood the gospel and truly believed in Jesus. I have been growing up in Christ ever since then. I enjoy teaching theology and helping others walk with God. I have been influenced by godly men from many historical Christian traditions such as The Early Church Fathers, Augustine, Francis of Assisi, Wycliffe, Luther, Calvin, Knox, Newton, Cowper, Bonor, Wesley, Whitefield, Francis Schaeffer, Os Guiness, James Sire, D.A. Carson, J.I. Packer, Charles Swindoll, Dan Wallace, Dallas Willard, Richard Foster, and other thoughtful, reflective, and godly men from a variety of disciplines of Christian background. I am thankful for their influence on my walk with God and life. Godly Transformation into the Image of Jesus Humility and brokenness have been the things God has used to change me into His image and to come to see that growth in godliness as led by the Holy Spirit through the Word of God is more important than any fleshly legalism or liberalism “in Jesus name.” Walking intimately with Jesus is real Christian faith and life. Traditional and/or contemporary forms mean nothing compared to the absolute importance of humbling ourselves from all our legalistic tendencies and liberal desires and allowing Jesus to change us into a godly person. Without biblical holiness no one will see the Lord. Godly Church Expressions Personally and Corporately The Exchanged Life and Other Movements of Faith - The core of the Gospel is rooted in Galatians 2:20. See my PowerPoint presentation titled Crucified With Christ. I became acquainted with the exchanged life teachings of "Deeper Life" writers [Watchman Nee, Andrew Murray, Oswald Chambers, W. Ian Thomas, W.H. Griffith Thomas and others] over the years from the 1970s to the present. Where the "Deeper Life" folks are faithful to scripture in their writings I have been blessed by them toward a greater spiritual growth. Respect for godly men who take their walk with Christ seriously should be a prime motive for godly men. I do not worship theological traditions of men [including The Exchanged Life]. Nor do I boast in men, as I am commanded by the apostle Paul not to do [1 Corinthians 3:21]. Sinless Perfection I reject any concept of a sinless perfection which Exchanged Life teachers promote. The apostle Paul, the appointed apostle of Jesus Christ with the Gospel of Jesus Christ, clearly claimed he was [Gk., present tense, "I am"] "the chief of sinners" many years after he trusted Jesus Christ, received his Spirit, and proclaimed his gospel. If Paul was sinlessly perfect, he could not say he was, in the present tense, the chief of sinners. Furthermore, Paul admits that he has fleshly confidences which he could proudly claim if he wanted to [Philippians 3:4-6], but maturity in Christ required a continued daily denial of fleshly confidences in order to conform into the image of Jesus by the Spirit's righteousness. But if he was sinlessly perfect, he would have no fleshly confidences to confess. They would be null and void. Exchanged Life teaching of sinless perfection I reject. Even their own teaching claims a continual need for a variety of crosses for dying to self. If these are needed all along the way, then we cannot be sinless until we are totally purified in the presence of Jesus Christ face to face [1 John 3:2-3]. As long as there is any sin to die to, a believer is never sinlessly perfect. To believe otherwise is self-deception [Hebrews 3:13; 1 John 1:8,10]. Romans 6 Romans 6 - In Romans 6 Paul tells us to present our bodies to God as alive from the dead since Sin has no power to "reign" over us. He does not say Sin will no longer "be" in us. Controlling Sin by the presence and power of the Spirit through an ever growing faith is the way of sanctificaton - not the elimination of Sin by intellectual assent to a set of rational arguments. We are continually in the process of becoming free "living letters" [2 Corinthians 3:2-3, 15-18] by the Spirit of Grace moment by moment, not dead theologians believing that if we are "seated in the heavenlies" with Christ we are not realistically walking day to day in a Sin-laden world. The Cross and Spirit of Grace are ever continually needed - not a slick rational "system" that if held intellectually, gives me the freedom to deceive myself or others that I am either "elect" and cannot fall from the faith [Reform], or "sinless" in the faith [Exchanged Life], or have any power in myself or by my own free will to live the Gospel of the Kingdom on my own in the flesh [Arminian]. Boasting in Men It is wrong to boast in Apollos, Cephas and Paul just as much as to boast in Luther, Calvin, Wesley, Menno Simons or any of their followers. Our emerging church generation is given to the idolizing of Mark Driscoll, Andy Crouch, Andy Stanley, Brian McClaren, Doug Pagitt, Rob Bell, and many other young leaders on the contemporary scene today. And this generation's worship of their favorite theological idols is no different than the same spirit that grips the fans of American Idol on TV. Young Christians have become simply spiritual rockstar groupies "in the name of Jesus." Many of them have a genuine love for Jesus and I respect leaders of the emerging church where they are true to scripture and a genuine walk with God. But some are so full of radical fluff and rebellious "coolness" it makes me sick to realize that in my younger years, I was just as guilty to follow the spiritual rock stars of my generation who were the "Chief Executive Officers" of spirituality for the church in the 70s-80s [Swindoll, Schaeffer, Colson, Daws Trotmann, Bill Bright, Dobson, Kennedy, etc.]. My generation had the same spiritual immaturity as believers in Corinth [1 Corinthians 3:1-7,21], believers in the Reformation and emerging believers today. "All things are yours" [1 Corinthians 3:21-23] - things traditional and trendy. Things already thought of and things not thought of as yet. But spiritual demagoguery of the old school or the new school is idol worship, any way you want to slice it. I love the great reform divines because of their love for truth and godliness. But the transposition of their teachings into debatable lines of legalistic thought kills the Spirit and pampers the fleshly mind with pride of theological position and place. I love to think theology. But I worship a living God, not a theological thought or mere line of reasoning. There are great truths in the writings of many well-known Christians throughout history and the Holy Spirit gives us the ability to discern the spirit of truth and error in all of their writings [1 John 2:20-21, 27]. Instead of creating demagogues and carnal idols of men to worship, let's follow instead the Spirit of Jesus in all truly born again men and women who take God's word seriously. Let's seek the best of the best from all of them and let their chaff and foolishness from age-to-age blow away into history's dust and ashes as the Spirit gives each new generation a "spirit of wisdom and revelation in the knowledge of Christ" [Ephesians 1:17-21]. Jesus Christ cannot change [Hebrews 13:8], but man's take on him does and it is this we must guard from generation to generation by God's living presence within us or we will be blind-sided by our own smug spiritual arrogance that we possess all the truth where others don't. Reasoning By the Spirit and Not in the Flesh We will box ourselves into the logical fallacy of the Devil's pride in a modern age, a self-focused reasoning that says, "If I think it, therefore, I am right because of my ability to think it" and not God's ability to reveal to me His wise perspectives which are much broader than mine. We will try to codify living truth, and in so doing, turn it into a means of living "under law" in the flesh and in the name of some well-known Christian or even the name of Jesus. We then exchange a living intimate walk with God in Jesus for a dead intellectual theology of the fleshly mind. I am all for reasoning, but the Spirit's reasoning opens the eyes of my heart [Ephesians 1:17] to what is in scripture without appealing to the pride of my flesh in so doing. To allow the Spirit to renew the mind gives a grander reasoning than the limited reasonings in the "wisdom of men." And yet these reasonings are always subject to the evaluation of others by truth in love. It is here that non-Charismatics, which is my tradition, fear charismania and irrational thinking leading to irrational behaviors. But true leadership by the Spirit is never irrational, even though it is supra-rational [beyond the commonly held thoughts of men in the flesh]. Our prideful arrogance wants us to believe that we rationally have all the ability we need to reason our way to truth. In the flesh we are demi-gods in our thinking, blinded to our own ignorance by our own arrogance and lack of dependence on a supra-rational being greater than ourselves. In our spiritual blindness we do not hear Jesus speaking to his generation the same words that Isaiah spoke to his generation:
The scriptures sublimate all things, including theological understanding and insight, as well as the will of man, to God's power and glory. Man's understanding of theological truth and his will are as free as God's will permits it to be. And even the rebellion against that thought is by permission of a sovereign God [Romans 9:20-21]. If I lean toward the reform camp, it is not a desire to be reform in tradition. It is a desire to be true to the God of the Bible who is Lord of all - whether men acknowledge it by their free will or not. Following Movements "in Jesus' Name" Therefore, I do not seek to follow or worship the authoritative movements of men throughout church history either. The Exchanged Life movement is being used by God to set some people free from themselves with a greater focus on the Gospel. Praise God for it. Many believers do not understand the Gospel as it relates to the whole being of spirit, soul, and body [1 Thessalonians 5:23] and do not get it in their churches because of Christian cultural/theological hobby horses. These parachurch movements, whether by Charles Solomon, John Woodward, or Steve McVey, [or even Campus Crusade, The Navigators, Intervarsity or others], are helpful toward a greater understanding of the mental, emotional, and willful application of the Cross of Jesus to one's life. Thank God for them. But I don't worship them and glorify them. The Exchanged Life is taught by Jesus and the apostle Paul [Luke 9:23; 1 Corinthians 15:31; Galatians 2:20] and no one can deny it who takes the text-in-its-context seriously, or believes a grain of wheat must fall into the ground and die before it can bear fruit of any kind [John 12:24-26]. But we are called to follow Jesus, not Exchanged Life movements, Reform movements, Arminian movements, Charismatic movements, non-Charismatic movements or well-known Christian men in the history of the church. Every Christian has his or her gifts from God for their generation [1 Corinthians 7:7; Ephesians 4:7; 1 Peter 4:10]. Let's be thankful for all generations bearing God's truth to our hearts in our day for our generation and those to come. I respect godly Spirit-led biblicists of every tradition and trend throughout Church history. There are false teachers in Exchanged Life, in the Reform faith, in the Arminian camp, in the Charismatic camps, and many other Christian sub-cultures. A man needs the presence of God in his heart and the Word of God in his mind to see through to the spirits of truth and error wherever they are to be found in and outside the church. Pentecostal-Charismatics - I am a believer in all the gifts for today mentioned in scripture as long as a contextual hermeneutic of scripture are applied to them faithfully in the original languages of scripture. I do not believe that I, out of a fear of misuse and abuse of God's supposed "power," have the right to a theological rationale that denies God the right to do what He wants to do in His church from age to age. If God wants to heal, do miraculous things, proclaim his Word in an illuminated revelational form that cuts to the heart of a believer personally, or communicate in known languages through those who do not speak the particular language of an unbeliever, who am I to rebell against the words of an apostle of Christ and forbid it [1 Corinthians 14:39]? Non-Charismatics have dismissed the power and experience of the Holy Spirit in their lives through their rejection and fear of Pentecostal-Charismania. Pentecostal-Charismatics have fallen away from the scriptures through their confirmations of a spirituality based upon personal experiences alone over the Word of God and their rejection and fear of non-Charismatic rationalism in the flesh [which is a failure in the non-Charismatic culture born out of the Enlightenment and a purely academic tradition of propositional or positional truth alone that fears rather than embraces experiential truth]. Dr. Bob Kellerman outlines the non-Charismatic viewpoint in his review of Wallace and Sawyer's Who's Afraid of the Holy Spirit?. Non-Charismatics exchange the Trinity of Father, Son and Holy Spirit for a Father, Son, and the Holy Scriptures, depending on fleshly minded reason in the traditions of men as their foundation. This is a just analysis of the non-Charismatic. The halls of Christian academia are filled with prideful arrogance based on propositional positions. But the same can be said of those given to experiential truth "in Jesus name" in the halls of charismania. We must speak the truth to each other in love and allow the experience of the Holy Spirit to guide us all into healthy propositions and positions in spirit and truth. Fear in the flesh will divide us. Faith in the Spirit will unite us in a common belief that a truly Holy Spirit of truth will be consistently rational, emotional, and volitional in His leadership of all those seeking His guidance in light of scripture. Denial of healthy spiritual experiences is just as bad as the denial of healthy spiritual teachings in propositional form. Our fallen ungodly reason, without God's Spirit to guide, can have us "suppressing the truth in unrighteousness" [Romans 1:18] from either the Charismatic or the non-Charismatic side. All intellect influences our experiences to some degree. And all experiences are driven by some standard of thinking - regardless of how informed or shallow. To set experience in opposition to intellect is to argue for a split-personality in the church and world - whether from the Charismatic side or the non-Charismatic side. The soul includes mental experiences, emotional experiences, and volitional experiences. To separate and hold these at odds to one another is the travesty of a theological rationalism that reduces living men and women to nothing but cadavers to be dissected in rational theological debates and refuses to see that we are created in God's triune image, where healthy thinking contributes to healthy feelings, healthy feelings contribute to healthy thinking, and healthy thinking and feeling contributes to healthy actions. We should not deny one for the other any more than we should deny one person of the Trinity for the other. Both sides, the non-Charismatic and the Charismatic, are faulty and foolish in their own ways while trying to retain a certain commitment to truth [the written Word or the Living Word of the Spirit]. Therefore I love and welcome into fellowship in Christ the Pentecostal-Charismatic who is willing to deny his historic Christian culture to be faithful to scripture. And I love and welcome into fellowship in Christ the non-Charismatic who is willing to deny his historic Christian culture in order to experience the leadership of the Holy Spirit in real ways that are in accord with scripture. Whether a man is Charismatic or non-Charismatic, if he is born again by the Spirit of God, he or she is my brother or sister in Christ and I am bound to respect them in love as I speak with them in truth as we both grow up in Christ over time [Ephesians 4: 15]. Church Planting – I have a Church Planting Philosophy of Ministry available which outlines in detail my desire to plant churches centered on godliness and a biblical/cultural worldview. The Arts - I believe with the apostle Paul that "all things are ours" [1 Corinthians 3:21-23] and that the church should be creating and publishing beauty and excellence to the glory of Jesus Christ in its worship. I am neither traditional nor contemporary in taste. I think like a film director who wants to create beautiful expressions of God's truth through every art form available in an appropriate context in keeping with the biblical message being focused upon. May all of our contemporary efforts at excellent worship expressions become traditions in the history of a godly church culture who is more afraid of their God than they are of the traditions and trends of men. All things are ours with which to glorify God in any generation. Sports - One of the greatest places I can grow spiritually and physically is as a sportsman. I love hiking, climbing, walking, and running. I have run three 26.2 mile marathons in my life and many 10Ks. But I am not in shape for them now. But outside of social play, I have never been the greatest football, basketball, or other major sports enthusiast. I like soccer. But my greatest service in the area of sports will be in sharing them with others who love them and watching their joy of the game. I like playing racquetball as well. But I must confess, my heart belongs to the arts more than sports. I do enjoy a good workout on a regular basis however. If contra-dancing [celtic folk dancing] is a sport, I love it. I do like hunting and fishing. But I must accompany and learn from the experts since I am no expert in these areas at all. Study of the Scriptures - Give me men who share freely and openly what God is showing them in the Word. Give me men who are not afraid to explore possibilities while being true to accurate exegesis, exposition, and healthy orthodox teachings along the way. Give me innovators, artists, creators, thinkers, and accurate engineers with a wild side that the Holy Spirit can control. Give me lovers of truth found everywhere in the creation of God or the Word of God. Feed the Poor, Clothe the Naked, and Visit the Prisoners - Having worked with the homeless, drug addicts, alcoholics, felons, and what some would consider the dregs of the earth, I have come to see that the compassion of Jesus can only be felt through love and humility. Pride and hardness of heart in the church kills the spirit of the people. The Holy Spirit's influence is squelched, resisted, and denied through self-righteous hardhearted puristic legalisms and unrighteous "anything goes" license. There is a perfect balance led by the Holy Spirit through biblical principles and godly men who love and listen to one another find that balance. Change the Culture as God Leads - Biblical change begins from the inside out - not from the outside in. Growing godliness will overflow in cultural outreach and effort. Reverse the emphasis and godliness will decrease as fleshly good works increase to the glory of spiritually proud men and women who are out of touch with their God but "nice" and "politically correct" before others. Change from within is entry into the kingdom of Jesus. As individuals change they change their families. As families change they change their community. As communities change they change their nation. The church is salt and light, not Savior or Lord. When we begin to trust in our power to bring change we will stop trusting in the God of Change [2 Corinthians 3:18] through His power and glorify ourselves "in Jesus name." |
Influential Ministry Literature
"Influence" does not imply total acceptance and agreement with all writer's views English Transliterations of the Bible: NKJV, NASB, ESV with other modern translations valuable as conceptual versions The Complete Works of Oswald Chambers Reform writings by godly men Exchanged Life writers [A.B. Simpson, A.W. Tozer, Oswald Chambers, W.H. Griffith Thomas, Ian Thomas, and others over and above the Exchanged Life movement which has helpful teaching materials related to the cross of Christ and its application to a personal walk with God. Christians Thinkers and Church Planters: James Sire, Os Guiness, Francis Schaeffer, D.A. Carson, Mark Driscoll, David Wells, Will Mancini, Frank Viola, Alan Hirsch and others.
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References Pastor Bob Barbour, Union Missionary Baptist Church, Bradrick, OH Pastor Barry Smith, Union Missionary Baptist Church, Bradrick, OH Andrew Counts, Psychologist and Program Coordinator, Southway Christian Services, Pastor of All Saints Church, Huntington, WV Bob Curry, Corporate Tax Accountant, Big Canoe, GA Dan Hieronimus, Former Lawrence County Ohio Sheriff, Founder and Director of the Anti-Drug Air Show, now Retired Pastor Brady Lipscomb, Eastwood Baptist Church Tom Sargeant, High School Teacher at Roswell High School, Roswell, GA
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