The Uniting church in Australia: Equipping leaders to build new congregations [microform]
- Bib ID:
- 3287837
- Format:
- Book and Microform
- Author:
- Robinson, Dennis Cecil
- Description:
- 171 p.
- Summary:
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This Ministry Focus Paper offers a Biblical and Theological foundation for building new congregations in the Uniting Church in Australia. The Presbytery of North Queensland provides the arena for this interactive process. The Biblical and Theological discussion undergirds a strategy to convince the leadership of the church that evangelism and church growth are appropriate goals for the Uniting Church. The paper seeks to identify reasons why these goals are seldom pursued and from that point build a strategy to equip leaders for this purpose. The paper takes into account the community and church context of North Queensland and recognises the potential available in the cities of Townsville and Cairns. A strategy is then designed to move congregations in those cities past maintenance to an evangelistic and church growth orientation. The ministry of the whole people of God is a necessary ingredient for the accomplishment of church extension work.
Hence a review of some material in the area of Ministry of the Laity is included with reflection on its appropriate application in the Australian context. The author is aware of the need for church leaders to access knowledge in the church planting field. Much of this material is set in the American arena and has to be contextualised for the Australian community. Principles are transferable while programs are more bound by the cultures in which they are developed. The concluding chapter focuses on the essential role of the priesthood of the church in fulfilling the reproductive expectation from a congregational perspective. The author is keenly aware that God is responsible for every facet of Kingdom extension.
- Notes:
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- (UnM)AAI9613203
- Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 57-01, Section: A, page: 0289.
- Mentor: Robert R. Redman, Jr.
- Thesis (D.Min.)--Fuller Theological Seminary, Doctor of Ministry Program, 1995.
- Reproduction:
- Microfiche. Ann Arbor, Mich.: University Microfilms International.
- Subject:
- Theology
- Other authors/contributors:
- Fuller Theological Seminary, Doctor of Ministry Program
- Copyright:
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- Published status:
- Unpublished
- Creation date:
- 1995
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