A.D. 2000: State of the Church in America
As the rest of the world is experiencing unparalleled church and Christian growth, America has become an unchurched nation.
Category: Ministry
June 20, 2000 | 0 comments | View Post
Roger Olson: Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Arminian
Roger E. Olson, “Don’t Hate Me Because I’m Arminian: My Reformed friends sometimes treat me like the enemy, but actually we need each other,” Christianity Today (September 6, 1999), pages 87-94. Many remember the schism between George Whitefield and John Wesley as a microcosm of the debate between Calvinists and Arminians. Roger E Olson […]
June 10, 2000 | 0 comments | View Post
Racial Reconciliation Manifesto
The Memphis Miracle was a meeting of North American Pentecostals in October of 1994 where the Racial Reconciliation Manifesto was drafted and signed and the Pentecostal Charismatic Churches of North America (PCCNA) Task Force was formed. Challenged by the reality of our racial divisions, we have been drawn by the Holy Spirit to […]
May 12, 2000 | 0 comments | View Post
The Memphis Manifesto: Five Years Later
On October 17-19, 1994 the leadership of the essentially all white Pentecostal Fellowship of the North America (PFNA) met in Memphis to confront its racial past and to meet with African American Pentecostals to establish an integrated fellowship. The result was a new organization known as the Pentecostal/Charismatic Churches of North America (PCCNA). As […]
April 21, 2000 | 0 comments | View Post
Pastor’s Paraklesis: Keeping Alert
“And do this, knowing the time, that now it is high time to awake out of sleep; for now our salvation is nearer than when we first believed. The night is far spent; the day is at hand. Therefore let us cast off the works of darkness, and let us put on the armor […]
January 10, 2000 | 0 comments | View Post
Finding the Grace Gates
Marshall Shelley and Eric Reed, “Finding the Grace Gates: An interview with Pastor Joseph Garlington” Leadership (Spring 1999), pages 22-28. Pastor Garlington is the pastor of Covenant Church of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, and a frequent speaker and worship leader at Promise Keeper events nationwide. “Finding the Grace Gates” focuses on the role of pastors as […]
December 10, 1999 | 0 comments | View Post
John Maxwell and Jim Dornan: Becoming a Person of Influence
John Maxwell and Jim Dornan, Becoming a Person of Influence: How to Positively Impact the Lives of Others (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 1997), 214 pages. In one of his latest of a growing list of writings, John Maxwell, pastor, conference speaker, and leadership mentor teams up with businessman Jim Dornan to write, Becoming a Person […]
September 20, 1999 | 0 comments | View Post
Pastor’s Paraklesis: Character
Editor Note: This issue introduces an on-going word of exhortation from Pastor C. J. Halquist. He has served as a pastor for over 35 years in the Assemblies of God, serving the last 16 years at Central Assembly of God in Grand Rapids, Michigan. Pastor Halquist has been ministering to other shepherds and those […]
July 31, 1999 | 0 comments | View Post
Keith Bailey: Servants in Charge
Keith M. Bailey, Servants in Charge: A Training Manual for Elders and Deacons (Camphill, PA: Christian Publications, 1979), 186 pages. One can find about as many a different ministry philosophies as there are church groups or denominations these days. Leadership styles and structures also seem to abound. Yet the Bible is quite clear on […]
May 9, 1999 | 0 comments | View Post
Internet Resources
The Internet You probably already know that the Internet has become a tremendous resource to many pastors, professors and Bible students. It can be a seamless tool for research of all kinds, from locating a Bible school to looking up ancient sources. In this issue, just a few of the countless internet resources that […]
April 5, 1999 | 0 comments | View Post
Do Full-Gospel Ministers Need Theology? by Larry Taylor
Pastor, scholar, businessman Larry Taylor shows that there is no need to fear theology and answers that there is a great need for a Biblical theology today. Pascal, never known for his affection for the rationalism of his day, once said that faith “is captured by the heart.”1 He was referring to his belief that […]
December 20, 1998 | 0 comments | View Post
Crossroad Bible Institute: A Bible Institute for Prisoners
Have more effective Prison Ministry follow-up by utilizing this Institute devoted to training inmates in God’s Word. Ask anyone who has been involved in prison ministry what the biggest difficulty is and they will tell you: Follow-up. Nothing is a greater obstacle to effective ministry to the incarcerated than the inability to establish relationships with […]
November 20, 1998 | 0 comments | View Post
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