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The Global Church Engaging the Nature of Sin and the Human Condition Reflecting, Reinforcing, Sustaining, or Transforming |
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Note: page numbers correspond with pdf version of study
Ch1 The World Today and Yesterday.....1 Emerging Tide and Converging Currents 2 Understanding the Bigger Picture 4 What We Have in Common 6
SECTION I: THE FRAGMENTARY HUMAN CONTEXT SHAPING THE CHURCH
Listen from the Beginning 12 Continuing to Listen 15 Listening to the Word 17 Listening to History 21 Listening to Key Words for Church History 26 Listening to What Unfolds 37 The Most Recurring Issue 41
Ch 3 Listening to the Person.....43 The Person in the Beginning 45 The Person from the Beginning 52 The Consciousness of Human Identity 57
Ch 4 Giving Voice to the Human Condition.....67 Set Into Motion from the Beginning 68 Human Intervention & Achievement, not Development 71 The Silence of the Human Condition 76 Good Intentions Composing the Human Condition 80 Voicing Our Narrowed-Down Condition 85
SECTION II: THE GLOBAL CHURCH UNFOLDING TRANSFORMED IN WHOLENESS
Ch 5 The Global Church Emerges Distinguished…..91 The Trajectory of the Old & the Path of the New Converge 92 From the Beginning or In the Beginning 99 The Primacy of Persons and Relationships 102 The Emerging Transition in Functional Significance 107 A Necessary Paradigm Shift 108 Reductionism and Church Leadership 115 Seeking Alternatives 118
Ch 6 The Church Unfolds with the Palpable Word…..121 The Church Local, Regional and Global Unfolds 123 The Church Face to Face 127 Face to Face with God’s Presence and Involvement 127 Face to Face with Each Other 130 Face to Face with the Globalizing World 134 Unfolding Into Nothing Less and No Substitutes 142
Ch 7 The Gathering Church for the Ages…...149 Gatherers or Hunters 151 The Grassroots Dynamic and the Organizational Process 153 Family Base with Uncommon Interrelationships 153 Koinonia Base with Grassroots Interdependence 155 Accountability Base with Interdependent Synergism 159 Gathering Myths and Scattering Realities 161 The Myth of Charisma and the Reality of Scholarship 162 Other Myths and Realities 166 Uncommonness versus Commonization 168
Ch 8 The Whole Witness for the Whole Gospel…..171 The Nature of Witness and the Significance of Witnessing 172 The Experiential Truth of the Witness 173 The Experiential Reality of Witnessing 175 The Challenge of the Gospel to Be Fulfilled 180 Witnessing to an Incomplete Gospel 183 The Whole Witness of Family and Koinonia 188
Ch 9 The Uncommon Equality of the Equalizing Church…..193 The Idolization of the Truth of God 194 The Truth of God Unfolds in Whole Relational Terms 198 ‘Common Peace’ and ‘Justice without Righteousness’ 201 Distinguishing the Difference 205 The Uncommon Peace of the Church 209 Comparative Relations, Power Relations or Whole-ly Relationships 210 The Relational Significance and Relational Outcome of the Church’s Uncommon Peace 215 Gospel of Uncommon Equality Proclaimed by the Equalizing Church 218 The New, Uncommon, Whole Relational Order of the Transformed Church 222 Further Implications of the Church as Equalizer 224
Ch 10 The Integrity of Globalizing the Church…..231 Who and What Converge in the Global Church 234 The Heart of Its Global Theology 235 The Heart of Its Global Practice 237 The Globalizing Church Celebrating in a Fragmenting World 239
Scripture Index (Primary Source)..…243
Bibliography (Secondary Source).....246
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