Notes
Preface
Revelation 1:8.
Hebrews 13:8.
Series introduction: the Contemporary Christian – the then and the now
Psalm 119:105; cf. 2 Peter 1:19.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Letters and Papers from Prison, enlarged edn (SCM Press, 1971), p. 279.
Matthew 11:19.
See Jaroslav Pelikan, Jesus Through the Centuries (Yale University Press, 1985), pp. 182–193.
2 Corinthians 11:4.
2 Timothy 1:15; cf. 4:11, 16.
Acts 26:25.
Ezekiel 2:6–7.
The Church: introduction
Titus 2:14.
P. T. Forsyth, The Work of Christ (Hodder & Stoughton, 1910), p. 5.
J. R. H. Moorman, A History of the Church of England (A. & C. Black, 1953), pp. 329, 331.
1 Secular challenges to the church
Trevor Beeson, Discretion and Valour (Collins, 1974), p. 24.
From an address by Solzhenitsyn, when accepting the Templeton Prize in London in May 1983.
Theodore Roszak, Where the Wasteland Ends (1972; Anchor, 1973).
Ibid., p. 22.
Ibid., p. 66.
Ibid., pp. 227–228.
Ibid., p. 67.
Ibid., p. 70.
Ibid., p. xxi.
Theodore Roszak, The Making of a Counter Culture (Anchor, 1969), p. 235.
Carlos Castaneda, The Teachings of Don Juan (1968; Penguin, 1970).
Margaret Singer, Cults in Our Midst: The Continuing Fight Against Their Hidden Menace (Jossey-Bass, rev. edn 2003), p. xvii.
The Economist, 25 November 1978.
Peter L. Berger, Facing Up to Modernity (1977; Penguin, 1979), p. 255.
David Spangler, Emergence: The Rebirth of the Sacred (Dell Publishing, 1984), pp. 12, 41.
Augustine, Confessions, Bk 1, ch. 1.
Isaiah 29:13; Mark 7:6.
Genesis 28:16.
1 Corinthians 14:24–25.
Viktor E. Frankl, Man’s Search for Meaning, originally published with the title From Death-Camp to Existentialism (1959; Washington Square Press, 1963), p. 165.
Ibid., p. 154.
Ibid., pp. 167, 204.
From the chapter ‘Rebellion in a Vacuum’, which was Arthur Koestler’s contribution to the symposium Protest and Discontent, ed. Bernard Crick and William Robson (Penguin, 1970), p. 22.
Émile Durkheim, Suicide: A Study in Sociology (1897; ET, 1952; Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1975), p. 246.
Desmond Doig, Mother Teresa: Her People and Her Work (Collins, 1976), p. 159.
The Autobiography of Bertrand Russell (Allen & Unwin, 1967), p. 13.
Jack Kroll in Newsweek, 24 April 1978.
Graham McCann, Woody Allen: New Yorker (Polity Press, 1990), p. 222.
Ibid., p. 248.
Stephen C. Neill, Christian Faith Today (Pelican, 1955), p. 174.
2 Evangelism through the local church
This chapter was written before Michael Green’s mammoth book Evangelism through the Local Church (Hodder & Stoughton, 1990) was published and came into my hands. Michael Green is a rare combination of theologian and evangelist, and has had an unusually wide and varied experience of evangelism. With that rollicking, infectious enthusiasm with which he always writes, he divides his theme into four parts: (1) ‘Issues for the Church’ (the nature, necessity, basis and sphere of evangelism in a multi-faith society), (2) ‘The Secular Challenge’ (four valuable chapters on apologetics), (3) ‘Church-based Evangelism’ (evangelistic preaching, personal evangelism, missions and other methods) and (4) ‘Practical Appendices’ (courses for enquirers, discovery groups for new Christians, the training of teams, the use of drama, leading worship, etc.). Here are nearly 600 pages of guidance – theological, personal and practical – from one whose head, heart and hands are together committed to the evangelistic outreach of the local church.
John 4:4–15.
Acts 8:26–35.
Acts 14:14–18.
Acts 17:22–23.
1 Peter 2:5, 9.
1 Thessalonians 1:5, 6, 8.
Alec Vidler, Essays in Liberality (SCM Press, 1957), ch. 5.
John 17:18; 20:21.
Michael Ramsey, Images Old and New (SPCK, 1963), p. 14.
The Church for Others (WCC, Geneva, 1967), pp. 7, 18–19.
Richard Wilke, And Are We Yet Alive? (Abingdon, 1986).
Faith in the City (Church House, 1985).
Acts 8:35.
Romans 1:1, 3.
1 Corinthians 15:3–5.
A. M. Hunter, The Unity of the New Testament (SCM Press, 1943).
John Poulton, A Today Sort of Evangelism (Lutterworth, 1972), pp. 60–61, 79.
E.g. Psalm 115:2.
E.g. Psalm 115:4–7.
John 1:18 (rsv).
John 14:9.
Colossians 1:15.
1 John 4:12.
John 13:35; 17:21.
3 Dimensions of church renewal
Charles Ross, The Inner Sanctuary: An Exposition of John Chapters 13 – 17 (1888; Banner of Truth, 1967), p. 216.
1 Timothy 3:15.
Ephesians 5:27.
Matthew 11:19 = Luke 7:34.
Hebrews 7:26.
Leon Morris, The Gospel According to John, in the New International Commentary on the New Testament (Marshall, Morgan & Scott, 1971), p. 730.
Philippians 2:7–8.
William Temple, Readings in St John’s Gospel (first published in two volumes, 1939 and 1940; Macmillan, 1947), p. 327.
4 The church’s pastors
Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor (1656; Epworth, 2nd edn, 1950), p. 24.
David Hare, Racing Demon (Faber & Faber, 1990), p. 3.
Ibid., pp. 34–35.
Ibid., pp. 75, 97.
Ibid., pp. 3–4.
Ibid., p. 43.
Ibid., p. 63.
Ibid., p. 71.
Ibid., pp. 66, 69.
1 Corinthians 3:5, paraphrased and expanded. Paul deliberately used the neuter ‘what’ rather than the personal ‘who’.
1 Thessalonians 5:12–13.
1 Timothy 3:1.
Session 22, 1562.
Decree on the Priestly Ministry and Life, 1965, I.2.
Ibid., p. I.5.
Acts 14:13.
E.g. Hebrews 10:12.
Revelation 1:6; 5:10; 20:6.
1 Peter 2:5, 9.
Romans 12:1.
Revelation 5:8; Hebrews 13:15; Psalm 51:17.
Philippians 4:18; Hebrews 13:16.
Philippians 2:17; 2 Timothy 4:6.
Romans 15:16.
C. H. Hodge, Systematic Theology (Thomas Nelson and Sons/Charles Scribner and Co., 1875), vol. II, p. 467.
Norman Sykes, Old Priest, New Presbyter (CUP, 1956), p. 43.
John Calvin, Institutes, IV.v.4.
Richard Hooker, Laws of Ecclesiastical Polity (1593–1597), Book V.lxxviii.3.
Hebrews 5:1.
E.g. Exodus 19:22; Leviticus 10:3; 16:2.
E.g. Exodus 30:20; Hebrews 8:3–6.
E.g. Exodus 28:9–14, 29–30; Joel 2:17.
E.g. Leviticus 10:11; Deuteronomy 17:11; 2 Chronicles 15:3; 17:8–9; 35:3; Jeremiah 2:8; Malachi 2: 1, 4–9.
E.g. Leviticus 9:22–23; Numbers 6:22–27; Deuteronomy 21:5.
E.g. Exodus 28:30; Deuteronomy 21:5.
Ephesians 2:18; James 4:8.
Hebrews 10:19.
E.g. 1 Peter 2:5; Romans 12:1.
Acts 6:3–4.
E.g. Colossians 3:16; Galatians 6:2.
E.g. Acts 14:23; 20:17, 28; 1 Timothy 3:1–2; Titus 1:5–9.
Matthew 9:36.
Acts 20:28.
Ephesians 4:11.
Mark 10:45.
2 Corinthians 4:5.
John 10:11, 14.
1 Peter 5:4; Hebrews 13:20; 1 Peter 2:25.
John 10:3, 14–15.
John 1:47–48.
Luke 19:5; Acts 9:4.
3 John 14.
1 Thessalonians 1:2.
John 10:14.
John 10:15.
E.g. John 14:21; 15:15.
John 10:11.
Ezekiel 34:2. The New Testament equivalent is Jude 12, which speaks of ‘shepherds who feed only themselves’. That is, they use their position to minister to their own ego rather than to the people committed to their care.
See Ezekiel 34:4.
Acts 20:28.
Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor (1656; Epworth, 1939), pp. 121–122.
Chua Wee Hian, Learning to Lead (IVP, 1987), p. 35.
Psalm 80:1.
Psalm 23:1–2.
John 10:3–4.
1 Peter 5:2–3.
John 10:9.
1 Timothy 3:2.
Titus 1:9.
John 21:17.
1 Corinthians 3:2; Hebrews 5:12.
Colossians 1:28.
Ephesians 4:12.
Ezekiel 34:14.
Lesslie Newbigin, The Good Shepherd: Meditations on Christian Ministry in Today’s World (Faith Press, 1977), p. 14.
2 Samuel 5:2.
1 Thessalonians 5:12 (rsv).
Hebrews 13:17.
Hebrews 13:7.
E.g. Matthew 18:15–20; 1 Corinthians 5:4–5, 13.
John 10:12–13.
Matthew 7:15; cf. Acts 20:29–30.
1 Samuel 17:34–35.
John 10:13.
Ezekiel 34:5.
Titus 1:9.
John 10:16.
Luke 19:10; cf. 15:3–7.
Ezekiel 34:6.
Richard Baxter, The Reformed Pastor (1656; Epworth, 1939), pp. 121–122.
Luke 15:7.
1 Peter 5:4.
Mark 10:42–45.
T. W. Manson, The Church’s Ministry (Hodder & Stoughton, 1948), p. 27.
Matthew 23:1–12.
2 Corinthians 10:1; cf. 2 Timothy 2:24.
Charles W. Colson, Kingdoms in Conflict: An Insider’s Challenging View of Politics, Power, and the Pulpit (Morrow-Zondervan, 1987), p. 272.
Ibid., p. 274.
Conclusion: the now and the not yet
Mark 1:15, as he translates ēngiken.
Matthew 12:28, ephthasen.
E.g. Mark 1:14; Matthew 13:16–17.
Matthew 12:28–29; cf. Luke 10:17–18.
Luke 17:20–21.
E.g. Mark 10:15.
Matthew 6:10.
Matthew 6:33.
Mark 9:47; cf. Matthew 8:11.
Matthew 25:34.
E.g. Isaiah 2:2; Matthew 12:32; Mark 10:30.
Galatians 1:4.
Colossians 1:13; cf. Acts 26:18; 1 Peter 2:9.
Ephesians 2:6; Colossians 3:1.
E.g. Matthew 13:39; 28:20.
Romans 12:2; 13:11–14; 1 Thessalonians 5:4–8.
Romans 8:24; 5:9–10; 13:11.
Romans 8:15, 23.
John 5:24; 11:25–26; Romans 8:10–11.
Psalm 110:1; Ephesians 1:22; Hebrews 2:8.
Romans 8:24.
Philippians 3:20–21; 1 Thessalonians 1:9–10.
Romans 8:19.
Romans 8:22–23, 26; 2 Corinthians 5:2, 4.
Romans 8:23; 1 Corinthians 1:7.
Romans 8:25.
E.g. Isaiah 32:15; 44:3; Ezekiel 39:29; Joel 2:28; Mark 1:8; Hebrews 6:4–5.
Romans 8:23.
2 Corinthians 5:5; Ephesians 1:14.
Hebrews 6:4–5.
Psalm 119:105.
2 Corinthians 5:7.
Deuteronomy 34:10; cf. Numbers 12:8; Deuteronomy 3:24.
1 Corinthians 13:9–12.
Deuteronomy 29:29.
1 Thessalonians 4:7–8.
Galatians 5:16–26.
2 Corinthians 3:18.
Galatians 5:17.
1 John 1:8.
Philippians 3:12–14; 1:6.
E.g. Leviticus 19:2.
John 8:11 (rsv).
E.g. Romans 7:17, 20; 8:9, 11.
2 Corinthians 12:12 (rsv).
Revelation 11:15.
Hebrews 6:5.
2 Corinthians 4:10–11.
Revelation 21:5.
Ephesians 5:27; cf. Revelation 21:2.
1 Timothy 6:12.
Ephesians 4:3.
Matthew 13:30.
2 Peter 3:13; Revelation 21:1.
Mark 13:7.
Isaiah 2:4.