Unfinished Business: Returning the Ministry to the People of God

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Harper Collins, 2003 - Clergy - 282 pages

The Reformation restored the Scriptures to the people, but the job was only halfway finished. Today the church is awakening to the truth that ministry is not just the domain of clergy, but belongs to the entire body of Christ. God is moving her to complete her unfinished business of placing the ministry back in the hands of the people. Unfinished Business has played a pivotal part in helping the church reclaim ministry at the grassroots level. First published in 1990 as The New Reformation, it has become a classic resource for church life. Expanding on and updating the original material with fresh examples and references to eight key important movements, this new edition lays foundations for the church to move from: · Passive to active · Maintenance to mission · Clergy to people of God · Teacher/caregiver to equipping enabler Pointing us back to the church as an organism, not an institution, author Greg Ogden shows how each of us is called to help finish the Reformation's unfinished business: expressing the priesthood of every believer practically in the church, the world, and all avenues of life.

 

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Contents

Preface
Together We Have It All 41
2 The Institutional Entrapment of the Church 62
3 Unveiling Our Institutional MindSet 78
4 Shifting from Institution to Organism 94
A Counterproductive Model of Ministry 111
6 A Biblical Vision of an Equipping Ministry 130
8 Who Are the Equippers? 189
10 Call and Ordination in the New Reformation 238
Index 273
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About the author (2003)

Greg Ogden (DMin, Fuller Theological Seminary) was the executive pastor of discipleship at Christ Church in Oak Brook, Illinois, and served previously as director of the Doctor of Ministry program at Fuller Theological Seminary. He has more than twenty-four years of experience in pastoral ministry in churches in California and Pennsylvania. With degrees from UCLA and Fuller Theological Seminary, Dr. Ogden is also author of Discipleship Essentials and Making Disciples Jesus' Way. Greg Ogden (DMin, Fuller Theological Seminary) was the executive pastor of discipleship at Christ Church in Oak Brook, Illinois, and served previously as director of the Doctor of Ministry program at Fuller Theological Seminary. He has more than twenty-four years of experience in pastoral ministry in churches in California and Pennsylvania. With degrees from UCLA and Fuller Theological Seminary, Dr. Ogden is also author of Discipleship Essentials and Making Disciples Jesus' Way.

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TitleUnfinished Business: Returning the Ministry to the People of God
AuthorsGreg Odgen, Greg Ogden
Editionillustrated, revised
PublisherHarper Collins, 2003
ISBN0310246199, 9780310246190
Length282 pages
  
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