Ministry on the Fireline: A Practical Theology for an Empowered Church

✍ Scribed by Ray S. Anderson

• Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
• Year: 2011
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 240
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

"The best theory for fighting fires comes from actually engaging in the battle against the flames," Ray Anderson writes. "For the thousands of pastors and church leaders who are on the 'firelines' of God's mission in the world, we need a theology that sings, even as it stings, igniting the mind and stirring the heart."

In these pages, then, Anderson passionately sets forth a vision of the church's work and mission based on its birthday: Pentecost. At Pentecost, Christians were given the Holy Spirit in order to understand the incarnation and come alive to God. So this key event directs and empowers the church in its service to the world.

In the light of Pentecost we learn that we can come to know God only in praxis -- truth discovered through action. In the process of elucidating this praxis, Anderson seeks to construct a theology that not only truly respects and aids ministers on the firelines, but will also heal the breach between Pentecostal and mainline church theology.

✦ Table of Contents

ONTHE
THE CHRIST OF PENTECOST
A VISION OF HEALING AND HOPE
A VISION OF FORGIVENESS AND FREEDOM
The Gospel of Encouragement
A VISION OF EMANCIPATION AND CONSECRATION
The Praxis of Sanctification
The Praxis of liberation
The Praxis of Consecration
A VISION OF ENTITLEMENT AND EMPOWERMENT
The Praxis of Entitlement
A PAULINE PERSPECTIVE
Paul’s Revelation Theology
Paul’s Redemption Theology
Paul’s Christological Hermeneutic of the Spirit
Mission Theology and the Nature of the Church
AN APOSTOLIC MANDATE
The Apostolic Foundation of the Church
Apostleship as an Eschatological Orientation
The Apostolic Mandate for Mission Theology
AN EMERGING CHURCH
A CHARISMATIC DYNAMIC
The Pentecostal Movement—A Theological Anomaly
The Third Wove Movement—Its Theological Inadequacy
Toward an Authentic Charismatic Theology
A CONCERN FOR TRUTHFUL LIFE
THE CHRIST OF THE CITY
A Call to Repentance and Responsibility
To My Colleagues in Theological Education for Ministry
A Modest Proposal
A Call for Repentance and Renewal
Index