Be My Witnesses: The Church's Mission, Message, and MessengersWm. B. Eerdmans Publishing, 1985 - 237 من الصفحات This is a print on demand book and is therefore non- returnable. What is the church's mission in the world? What message does it proclaim, and who is to proclaim it? The mission, says Darrell Guder in this book, is to complete the work of salvation that God began in the incarnation of his son Jesus Christ. The message is the gospel -- the good news of the incarnate Christ. And the messengers are the Body of Christ -- the church -- who have been called to be his witnesses. Only as we understand Christ's incarnation and the church's role in proclaiming its meaning, according to Guder, can we understand our calling to be witnesses of God's salvation. Written out of Guder's wide-ranging experience as a minister and professor in the United States and Europe, and especially his work with the Fuller Seminary Institute of Youth Ministries and with Young Life, this book will challenge students and educated laypersons to grapple with serious theology about the church as it relates to what Christians are doing daily about their faith. |
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THE CHURCHS PLACE AND PURPOSE IN SALVATION HISTORY | 3 |
12 Called to Serve | 8 |
13 Christ in Salvation History | 12 |
14 The Church as Part of the Gospel | 15 |
THE INCARNATION THE WHAT AND THE HOW OF GODS ACTION | 18 |
22 The Incarnation of Christ and the Continuing Enfleshment of the Gospel | 24 |
23 The Church as the Body of Christ | 27 |
THE CHURCHS MANDATE BE MY WITNESSES | 33 |
73 The Inward Dimensions of Doing the Witness | 124 |
74 The Outward Dimensions of Doing the Witness | 128 |
SAYING THE WITNESS UNDERSTANDING EVANGELIZATION | 133 |
82 The Possibility of Evangelization | 136 |
83 The Necessity of Evangelization | 140 |
84 The Inward Dimension of Evangelization | 148 |
SAYING THE WITNESS IN THE WORLD INCARNATIONAL EVANGELIZATION | 153 |
92 Every Witness an Evangelist | 159 |
THE VISION OF THE CHURCH IN ACTS | 35 |
32 Be My Witnesses | 40 |
33 The Enabling Event of Pentecost | 44 |
34 The Community of Witness | 48 |
REALISM ABOUT THE CHURCH | 55 |
42 The Sobering Challenge of the Institutional Church | 65 |
DEFINING THE CHURCHS MISSION INCARNATIONALLY | 73 |
WHAT IS THE GOSPEL? | 75 |
52 Some Summary Statements | 78 |
53 Doing Modest Theology of the Church | 88 |
BEING THE WITNESS THE EQUIPPING COMMUNITY AS WITNESS | 91 |
62 Being and Becoming the Witness | 96 |
63 The Equipping Community as the Presupposition for Being the Witness | 105 |
DOING THE WITNESS CHRISTIAN ACTION AS WITNESS | 112 |
72 Saved to Serve | 117 |
93 The Gift of Evangelists | 167 |
94 The Prophetic Witness | 174 |
BECOMING THE CHURCH OF INCARNATIONAL WITNESS | 179 |
CORRECTING THE CHURCHS COURSE | 181 |
102 Changing How the Church Views Itself | 182 |
103 In but not of the World | 195 |
104 The Cultural Bondage of the Gospel | 197 |
MINISTRY FOR INCARNATIONAL WITNESS | 204 |
112 Equipping the Equipping Community | 211 |
113 The Authority of Ministry | 219 |
ON NOT SEPARATING THE INSEPARABLE | 226 |
122 The Inseparable in our Concept of Salvation | 230 |
123 The Inseparable in our Concept of the Church | 233 |
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