Part 1. Preparation for discovery -- The state of pastoral leadership in America -- Re-envisioning pastoral leadership -- The biblical basis for re-envisioning ministry -- Design, direction, and development -- The leader's behavior -- Part 2. Process of discovery -- Our initial exploration -- Our follow-up exploration -- Four critical questions -- Part 3. Practice of discovery -- Embracing the …
Combining substantive biblical principles and missiological understanding with practical insights, this book walks readers through the various models and development phases of church planting. It emphasizes the role of the missionary church planter, advocating methods that lead to church multiplication.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 201-202).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 139-141).
Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-276) and index.
Introduction: The call of the preacher -- Getting started : the basics for sermon preparation -- The proposition and the subject : setting the course -- The antithesis : the condition that the sermon addresses -- The thesis : the direction and focus of the sermon -- The relevant question : maintaining the sermon's integrity -- The synthesis : the body of the sermon.
Includes bibliographical references (pages 112-113).
The founding fathers -- The twelfth century, spiritual formation and monastic reform -- The poetic vision of the thirteenth century, the spirit of the friars -- The mystic flowering of fourteenth-century England -- The Rhineland and the Netherlands, beyond God to the Godhead -- The Italian mystic Renaissance, the two Catherines -- The Reformation, new dimensions of Christian spirituality -- Spa…