THE MISSION OF PREACHING
Equipping the Community for Faithful Witness
Patrick W. T. Johnson
Foreword by David J. Lose
InterVarsity Press
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Contents
Toward a Missional Ecclesiology
2 The Witness of the Christian Community
Barth’s Ecclesiology and Its Place in Missional Theology
“The Holy Spirit and the Sending of the Christian Community”
Moving Toward a Missional Homiletic
3 The Witness of Missional Congregations
The First Pattern: Discerning Missional Vocation
The Second Pattern: Biblical Formation and Discipleship
The Third Pattern: Taking Risks as a Contrast Community
The Fourth Pattern: Practices That Demonstrate God’s Intent for the World
The Fifth Pattern: The Public Witness of Worship
The Sixth Pattern: Dependence on the Holy Spirit
The Seventh Pattern: Pointing Toward the Reign of God
The Eighth Pattern: Missional Authority
Moving Toward a Missional Homiletic
4 A Missional Homiletic of Witness
Preaching Confesses Jesus Christ
The Preacher Confesses Jesus Christ
Preaching Confesses Jesus Christ Through a Missional Interpretation of Scripture
Praise for The Mission of Preaching
Foreword
To understand the import of the book you hold in your hands, it’s vital to give attention to a fact of congregational life that is as blatantly obvious as it is frequently overlooked: The dominant culture in the United States no longer has any vested interest in supporting church participation. From Benjamin Franklin ...
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About The Mission of Preaching: Equipping the Community for Faithful WitnessWe hear plenty of discussion about missional theology, missional leadership and missional church planting. But what about missional preaching? Now that the church in the West lives within a post-Christendom context, how should preaching look different? What homiletical assumptions arose within Christendom but are no longer relevant for a missionary church? In The Mission of Preaching, Patrick W. T. Johnson develops the first missional homiletic, a model for preaching determined by the missionary encounter between the gospel and Western culture. Mobilizing the latest resources in homiletical theory and missional theology, he argues that preaching is a major form of the churchs witness to Jesus Christ, equipping the congregation for its witness to the world. |
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