Serving the People of God's Presence

L. Cross Terry

Description

Leading theologian Terry Cross articulates the doctrine of the church's ministry from a Pentecostal perspective, demonstrating how Pentecostals can contribute to and learn from the church catholic. This companion volume to Cross's previous book, The People of God's Presence, proposes a radical revision of the structural framework of the local church within the often-overlooked corporate priesthood of all believers. Cross explores principles for leadership and ministry from the New Testament and the early church, helping all believers to do the work of ministry.

Sujets

• Philosophie et théologie

Informations

• Publié par: Baker Publishing Group
• Date de parution: 27 octobre 2020
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781493426980
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 3 Mo

Extrait

Cover
Half Title Page
Title Page
Copyright Page
© 2020 by Terry L. Cross
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ISBN 978-1-4934-2698-0
Unless otherwise indicated, Scripture quotations are from THE HOLY BIBLE, NEW INTERNATIONAL VERSION®, NIV® Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.® Used by permission. All rights reserved worldwide.
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Excerpts in chapter 5 from Terry L. Cross, “Romans 16: Women in Leadership?,” The Doctrine & Polity Committee for the Church of God, http://churchofgod.org.s3.amazonaws.com/downloads/doctrine-and-polity-papers/Cross-Romans-16-English.pdf, are used with permission of the Church of God.
Dedication
This book is dedicated to my five-year-old grandson,
Luke Edward Snider,
my “best buddy.”
Contents
Cover i
Half Title Page ii
Title Page iii
Copyright Page iv
Dedication v
Acknowledgments ix
List of Abbreviations xi
Introduction: Serving the People of God’s Presence 1
1. A Biblical Background to Ministry 13
2. A Historical Background to Ministry 49
3. Toward a Theology of Ministry among God’s People 87
4. The Praxis of Leading the People of God in (Their) Ministry 117
5. The Role of Women in Leading God’s People 151
6. The People of God’s Presence Participate in Practices Ordained by Christ 187
Conclusion: The Jazz of Leading the Church 235
Select Bibliography 241
Author Index 255
Scripture and Ancient Sources Index 259
Subject Index 263
Back Cover 268
Acknowledgments
The contents of this book propose some radical changes to the way Christians “do” church in the twenty-first century. Having established the need for a renewal of the theological foundation of the church in a previous volume, I turn now to provide the nuts and bolts of how to put such an ecclesiology into practice.
Given the rather radical nature of the proposal here, I have felt it necessary to extend my ideas to colleagues, students, pastors, and friends. They have offered immense help over the past decade or so. The associate dean of the School of Religion at Lee University, Dr. Rickie Moore, has read and engaged most of the material here, always probing me to think more deeply about the work of the Spirit in the church. A longtime friend, Dr. Larry Bergeron, has also read the manuscript and provided helpful direction, especially insight from his years in pastoral ministry.
Faculty in the School of Religion have responded to various aspects of my proposal, providing practical suggestions along the way. Much of what I have come to propose here is a result of many years of dialogue with these colleagues over the direction that theological education and ministerial training should take in this era of tectonic shifts in culture. Theological education across North America is experiencing challenges to enrollments for full-time ministry students—what does this mean for training future church leaders in the present? Further, what does this mean for the future of the church itself and for educational models for how to train ecclesial leaders? These questions have absorbed me in the past decade, and the faculty in our school have added immensely to my understanding of what we face. While none of them may recognize their own ideas in this proposal, each of the twenty-eight women and men has contributed to this theological dialogue. Two chairs work with me daily to make our school function effectively in training more than three hundred ministry students each semester. Dr. Mark Walker, chair of the Department of Christian Ministries (and the next president of Lee University), and Dr. Skip Jenkins, chair of the Department of Theology, have each brought into the dialogue their own expertise in leadership and historical theology respectively. Dr. Paul Conn, our current president at Lee University, is retiring after thirty-four years to become the chancellor. He has offered me unfailing support in so many ways throughout my years of teaching and administrating, for which I am very grateful.
Further, around one thousand students in my systematic theology classes over the past fifteen years have interacted with some version of various chapters. Their input has been immeasurable—especially in relation to the clarity of expressing the proposals here. Emma Posey and Grace Anne Cochrane, two of my student workers, have read versions of these chapters as well, offering very helpful suggestions for the sake of clarity from a student’s perspective.
Working with the staff at Baker Academic has been sheer joy. From the beginning, Dr. Dave Nelson has nurtured this project, believing that it meets a need among God’s people today. This encouragement has provided the impetus needed to complete these two companion volumes. The project editor, Jennifer Hale, has continued to bring sensitivity to the purpose of this book, as well as an extraordinary level of excellence to the editing process. Quite literally, this project would not be where it is without their enthusiasm and attention to detail.
The companion volume to this book ( The People of God’s Presence: An Introduction to Ecclesiology [Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2019]) was dedicated to the memory of my grandparents, who taught me so much about serving God’s people and making room for the presence of God among us. This volume is dedicated to my five-year-old grandson, Luke, in the hope that the church of the future will help him understand what it means to make room for God’s presence and other humans so that he, too, may discover the joy of being a priest unto God, ministering to others by bearing Christ to the world.
Abbreviations
General alt. altered ca. circa n.s. new series NT New Testament OT Old Testament Q(Q) question(s) rev. revised
Bible Versions Alter Alter, Robert. The Hebrew Bible: A Translation with Commentary . 3 vols. New York: Norton, 2019. ESV English Standard Version GNT Good News Translation HCSB Holman Christian Standard Bible KJV King James Version NASB New American Standard Bible NCV New Century Version NEB New English Bible NET The NET Bible (New English Translation) NIV New International Version NJB The New Jerusalem Bible NKJV New King James Version NLT New Living Translation NRSV New Revised Standard Version Phillips The New Testament in Modern English , J. B. Phillips REB Revised English Bible RSV Revised Standard Version
Old Testament Gen. Genesis Exod. Exodus Lev. Leviticus Num. Numbers Deut. Deuteronomy Josh. Joshua Judg. Judges Ruth Ruth 1 Sam. 1 Samuel 2 Sam. 2 Samuel 1 Kings 1 Kings 2 Kings 2 Kings 1 Chron. 1 Chronicles 2 Chron. 2 Chronicles Ezra Ezra Neh. Nehemiah Esther Esther Job Job Ps(s). Psalm(s) Prov. Proverbs Eccles. Ecclesiastes Song Song of Songs Isa. Isaiah Jer. Jeremiah Lam. Lamentations Ezek. Ezekiel Dan. Daniel Hosea Hosea Joel Joel Amos Amos Obad. Obadiah Jon. Jonah Mic. Micah Nah. Nahum Hab. Habakkuk Zeph. Zephaniah Hag. Haggai Zech. Zechariah Mal. Malachi
New Testament Matt. Matthew Mark Mark Luke Luke John John Acts Acts Rom. Romans 1 Cor. 1 Corinthians 2 Cor. 2 Corinthians Gal. Galatians Eph. Ephesians Phil. Philippians Col. Colossians 1 Thess. 1 Thessalonians 2 Thess. 2 Thessalonians 1 Tim. 1 Timothy 2 Tim. 2 Timothy Titus Titus Philem. Philemon Heb. Hebrews James James 1 Pet. 1 Peter 2 Pet. 2 Peter 1 John 1 John 2 John 2 John 3 John 3 John Jude Jude Rev. Revelation
Bibliographic Sources AF Holmes, Michael W., ed. and trans. The Apostolic Fathers: Greek Texts and English Translations . 3rd ed. Grand Rapids: Baker Academic, 2007. ANF Ante-Nicene Fathers BDAG Danker, Frederick W., Walter Bauer, William F. Arndt, and F. Wilbur Gingrich. Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature . 3rd ed. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2000. CD Barth, Karl. Church Dogmatics . Edited by T. F. Torrance and G. W. Bromiley. Translated by G. W. Bromiley et al. 13 vols. Edinburgh: T&T Clark, 1936–. CSEL Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum Inst. Calvin, John. Institutes of the Christian Religion . Edited by John T. McNeill. Translated by Ford Lewis Battles. 2 vols. Library of Christian Classics 20–21. Philadelphia: Westminster, 1975. KD Barth, Karl. Die kirchliche Dog