Deep Church Series The Gospel-Driven Church: Retrieving Classical Ministries for Contemporary Revivalism
Type
Book
Authors
ISBN 10
184227290X
ISBN 13
9781842272909
OCLC
57403724
Category
Missionary ( 宣教研究 )
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Publication Year
2004
Publisher
Pages
291
Subject
BV3793
Series Name
Abstract
Charismatic renewal has at the core of its ideology an aspiration for revival. This is a laudable aspiration, but in recent years, in the absence of a largescale evangelistic impact, it has encouraged a faddist mentality among church leaders. The Gospel-Driven Church documents this development and the numerous theological and pastoral distortions that take place when genuine revival fervor transmutes into revivalism. Moreover, Stackhouse aims to show how a retrieval of some of the core practices of the church, such as preaching, sacraments, the laying on of hands, and prayer is essential at this crucial stage in the trajectory of the renewal movement in the United Kingdom. He commends to church leaders a recovery of these means of grace - including Spirit baptism - as a way of keeping the church centered on the gospel rather than mere pragmatic concerns about size and numbers.
Description
1. Revivalism, faddism and the Gospel -- 2. Worship in revival -- 3. A crisis in preaching -- 4. On the importance of the sacraments -- 5. Pneumatological concerns -- 6. Prayer: key to revival? -- 7. The lost art of the cure of souls -- 8. The church apostolic.
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1
