Unity through Repentance

Amy Cogdell, Thomas Cogdell

Description

Can a 500-Year-Old Conflict Be Healed?  

 

Most Christians will agree that God has a desire to reconcile all peoples to himself—but few are willing to explore God’s fierce resolve to reconcile us to each other. In fact, we often find ourselves affirming deeply rooted hostility in the body of Christ. The legendary image of Martin Luther defiantly nailing his 95 Theses to the Wittenberg church door in 1517 exemplifies our urge to celebrate the split between Protestants and Catholics. But even this conflict can be transformed and healed by the power of God and the partnership of friends.

 

Unity through Repentance is the story of God interrupting the lives and plans of an ordinary couple to invite them into the adventure of a lifetime—gathering all the major streams of Jesus-followers in Wittenberg on the 500th anniversary of the Reformation. God gave the vision; tested and confirmed the calling; formed an international leadership team; and inspired a series of gatherings dedicated to joining with Jesus through repentance, forgiveness, and praying John 17.

 

As he tells his story, Cogdell emphasizes spiritual formation and conflict resolution, underscoring the importance of unity in the body of Christ for world evangelism. Unity through Repentance provides fresh inspiration for the global church to fulfill Jesus’s prayer for missions: Make them one ... so that the world will believe.

Cast of Characters

Foreword by Father Peter Hocken

Preface

Part I: Background and Vision, 1980s–2000

Chapter 1             Hope Chapel

Chapter 2             Born Again, Again

Chapter 3             Power Plant of Prayer

Chapter 4             God’s Landmine by Amy Cogdell

Chapter 5             Switzerland

Chapter 6             “The Guts to Go Through with It”

Part II: Testing, 2001–2010

Chapter 7             Waiting

Chapter 8             Compulsions

Chapter 9             “Let Me Do It”

Chapter 10           Herrnhut

Chapter 11           God Does It

Chapter 12           “Seven Years from Today”

Midword by John Dawson

Part III: A Journey into Repentance, 2010–2015

Chapter 13          “Where Are the Jews?”

Chapter 14           Antakya and Berlin

Chapter 15           Ottmaring, 2012

Chapter 16           Volkenroda, 2013

Chapter 17           Trento, 2014

Chapter 18           Rome, 2015

Part IV: The 500th Anniversary, 2016–2017

Chapter 19            500 Days Before, 2016

Chapter 20            Death of a Father

Chapter 21            Death of a Mother

Chapter 22            Searching for Anabaptists

Chapter 23            A Prayer Meeting Occasionally Interrupted by Teachings

Chapter 24            The Joy of Repentance

Part V: Sabbath and New Life

Chapter 25            The Beauty of Completability

Chapter 26           “Unless a Seed Falls into the Ground”

Afterword by Hanna Zack Miley

Appendix 1: The Wittenberg 2017 Principles

Appendix 2: Historical Conclusions about the Reformation

Appendix 3: Biographical Sketches by Amy Cogdell

Appendix 4: Wittenberg 2017 as One Pattern for Leadership of a Reconciliation Initiative

Appendix 5: Identificational Repentance

Appendix 6: A Lutheran Pastor Reflects on Rome by Hans Scholz

Appendix 7: Judensau Lament by Richard Harvey

Acknowledgments

Sujets

• Religion
• Christianisme
• Pneumatology
• Biography
• Christian Living
• Personal Memoirs
• Christian Theology

Informations

• Publié par: William Carey Publishing
• Date de parution: 31 mai 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781645085034
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 894 Mo

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