Unfinished business
Subtitle: returning the ministry to the people of God
By: Greg Ogden.
Contributors: Ogden, Greg.
Edition: Rev. ed.
Publisher: Zondervan
Published: 2003
Place of publication: Grand Rapids, Mich
Language: eng
Number of pages: 282
Subjects: Priesthood, Universal.; Clergy -- Office.; Lay ministry.; Pastoral theology.
Description: "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." -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Rev. ed. of: The new reformation. c1990.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Transforming people from passive to active; title: The Church as organism : together we have it all; title: The institutional entrapment of the Church; title: Unveiling our institutional mind-set; title: Shifting from institution to organism; title: Dependency : a counterproductive model of ministry; title: A biblical vision of equipping ministry; title: Implementing the equipping model of ministry; title: Who are the equippers?; title: Servant leadership : empowering the body for its ministry; title: Call and ordination in the new reformation.