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Incarnational Partnership in Mission: A Response to Questionable Assumptions
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This paper argued that mission is always a "together" thing and that the call to missionary service is a "one-to-many" thing, which requires a commitment to pattern our lives on the incarnational example of Jesus, entering humbly into the culture of others and seeking the Spirit's guiding.Abstract:
Mission is vital to the life of the church and it is important that the call to missionary service is affirmed This article argues that this requires a commitment to pattern our lives on the incarnational example of Jesus, entering humbly into the culture of others and seeking the Spirit’s guiding In this it is important to recognise the Spirit’s enabling of all Christians in mission and hence that mission is always a ‘together’ thing Mission may be enabled by particular missionaries but remains a partnership that draws people together with God to fulfil his mission in the worldread more
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Theology of the Old Testament
TL;DR: Theology of the Old Testament as discussed by the authors is the most complete volume on the subject in English, or perhaps in any language, and it is a book that one takes up with enthusiastic anticipation of pleasure and profit in reading it, but one lays it down with a feeling of disappointment.
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Network Church: A Pentecostal Ecclesiology Shaped by Mission
TL;DR: In this article, a trinitarian understanding of networks is developed and linked with an approach to the catholicity of the church that has a common essence and mission movement, shaped by the missionary nature of pentecostalism and rooted in an understanding of a church marked by Spirit baptism.
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Theology of the Old Testament
TL;DR: Theology of the Old Testament as discussed by the authors is the most complete volume on the subject in English, or perhaps in any language, and it is a book that one takes up with enthusiastic anticipation of pleasure and profit in reading it, but one lays it down with a feeling of disappointment.
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Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours?
TL;DR: In this article, the presentation of the Gospel Miracles and the substance of St Paul's Preaching are discussed. And the training of Converts The Teaching The Training of Candidates for Baptism and Ordination is discussed.