TY - BOOK AU - Johnson,Patrick W.T. TI - The mission of preaching: equipping the community for faithful witness SN - 9780830897124 AV - BV4221 .J64 2015eb U1 - 251 23 PY - 2015/// CY - Downers Grove PB - InterVarsity Press KW - Preaching KW - Witness bearing (Christianity) KW - Evangelistic work KW - Prédication KW - Témoignage (Christianisme) KW - Évangélisation KW - RELIGION KW - Christian Ministry KW - bisacsh KW - fast N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; Cover; Title Page; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Foreword; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction; 1 The Preacher as Witness; The Witness of Preaching; Preaching as Testimony; Confessing Jesus Christ; Toward a Missional Ecclesiology; 2 The Witness of the Christian Community; Barth's Ecclesiology and Its Place in Missional Theology; "The Holy Spirit and the Sending of the Christian Community"; Moving Toward a Missional Homiletic; 3 The Witness of Missional Congregations; The First Pattern: Discerning Missional Vocation; The Second Pattern: Biblical Formation and Discipleship; The Third Pattern: Taking Risks as a Contrast CommunityThe Fourth Pattern: Practices That Demonstrate God's Intent for the World; The Fifth Pattern: The Public Witness of Worship; The Sixth Pattern: Dependence on the Holy Spirit; The Seventh Pattern: Pointing Toward the Reign of God; The Eighth Pattern: Missional Authority; Moving Toward a Missional Homiletic; 4 A Missional Homiletic of Witness; Preaching; Preaching Confesses Jesus Christ; The Preacher Confesses Jesus Christ; Preaching Confesses Jesus Christ Through a Missional Interpretation of Scripture; Preaching Confesses Jesus Christ Through a Missional Interpretation of Scripture ... To Equip the Community for Witness to the WorldConclusion; Bibliography; Name and Subject Index; Praise for The Mission of Preaching; About the Author; More Titles from InterVarsity Press; IVP Academic Textbook Selector N2 - We hear plenty of discussion about missional theology, missional leadership and missional church planting. But what about missional preaching ? Now that the church in the West lives within a post-Christendom context, how should preaching look different? What homiletical assumptions arose within Christendom but are no longer relevant for a missionary church? In The Mission of Preaching , Patrick W.T. Johnson develops the first missional homiletic, a model for preaching determined by the missionary encounter between the gospel and Western culture. Mobilizing the latest resources UR - https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=966675 ER -