The Gospel-Driven Church: Retrieving Classical Ministries for Contemporary Revivalism (Deep Church series)

Stackhouse, Ian

ISBN 10: 184227290X / ISBN 13: 9781842272909

Published by Paternoster Press, Milton Keynes, 2004

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. xxiv + 291 pages. On the importance of the preaching of the word, the sacraments, and prayer, in reaction to a failing revivalism of the charismatic renewal movement. A little pencil annotation and marking.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Gospel-Driven Church: Retrieving Classical Ministries for Contemporary Revivalism (Deep Church series)
• Publisher: Paternoster Press, Milton Keynes
• Publication Date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 184227290X
• ISBN 13: 9781842272909
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Average
• Seller catalogs:
  • Revivals
  • Ministry, Pastors, Preaching, Church
  • The Holy Spirit; Pentecostal Movements

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Synopsis

Charismatic renewal has at the core of its ideology an aspiration for revival. This is a laudable aspiration, but in recent years, in the absence of a large-scale evangelistic impact, it has encouraged a faddist mentality among church leaders. The Gospel-Driven Church documents this development and the numerous theological and pastoral distortions that take place when genuine revival fervor transmutes into revivalism. Moreover, Stackhouse aims to show how a retrieval of some of the core practices of the church, such as preaching, sacraments, the laying on of hands, and prayer is essential at this crucial stage in the trajectory of the renewal movement in the United Kingdom. He commends to church leaders a recovery of these means of grace - including Spirit baptism - as a way of keeping the church centered on the gospel rather than mere pragmatic concerns about size and numbers.

About the Author

Ian Stackhouse is Senior Pastor of Guildford Baptist Church, he is the author of The Day is Yours, The Gospel Driven Church and a contributer to the book, Remembering our Future, he is active in the Deep Church movement in the UK
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