A− A+ 🌙 Dark 🔖 Bookmark 📖 Contents 🔍 Search ≈ 2 min read · pp. 1–1 Contents CONTENTS Preface: “Emerging Churches” The Postmodern World Acknowledgments and Abbreviations 1 ESSENTIALS: God’s Vision for His Church A Learning Church A Caring Church A Worshiping Church An Evangelizing Church 2 WORSHIP: Glorying in God’s Holy Name Biblical Worship Congregational Worship Spiritual Worship Moral Worship 3 EVANGELISM: Mission Through the Local Church Forms of Evangelism The Church Must Understand Itself: Its Theology The Church Must Organize Itself: Its Structures The Church Must Express Itself: Its Message The Church Must Be Itself: Its Life 4 MINISTRY: The Twelve and the Seven An Every-Member Ministry The Pastoral Ministry The Example of the Apostle (the Shepherd) The Invasion of False Teachers (the Wolves) The Value of the People (the Sheep) 5 FELLOWSHIP: The Implications of Koinonia Our Common Inheritance Our Common Service Our Mutual Responsibility Some Practical Illustrations 6 PREACHING: Five Paradoxes Biblical and Contemporary Authoritative and Tentative Prophetic and Pastoral Gifted and Studied Thoughtful and Passionate 7 GIVING: Ten Principles Springing From The Trinity Creating Equality According To Our Means Careful Supervision And Friendly Rivalry A Harvest With Symbolic Significance The Result: Thanksgiving to God 8 IMPACT: Salt and Light The Truths Of Salt And Light Weapons for Social Change Christian Distinctives CONCLUSION: Looking for Timothys in the Twenty-First Century A Threefold Appeal Where are the Timothys? THREE HISTORICAL APPENDIXES: Related in Different Ways to the Living Church HISTORICAL APPENDIX 1: Why I Am Still a Member of the Church of England HISTORICAL APPENDIX 2: I Have a Dream of a Living Church HISTORICAL APPENDIX 3: Reflections of an Octogenarian Notes Scripture Index Praise for The Living Church About the Author More Titles from InterVarsity Press Copyright ← PreviousBook homeNext →Section 2 ↑ Back to top
