PART A: WHAT DO WE MEAN BY 'CHURCH'?

(1) Ph.-H Menoud, 'Church', Vocabulary of the Bible, ed. J.J. von Allmen, E.T., 1958, 52, quoted by W. Ward Gasque, 'The Church in the New Testament', in D.J. Ellis & W. Ward Gasque (eds), In God's Community: The Church and Its Ministry. London: Pickering & Inglis, 1978, 1-3. (2) P.S. Minear, 'Church, Idea of' in The Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible, Abingdon, 1962, Vol. 1, 608. (3) A Skevington Wood, 'The Local Church' in Howard Belben, ed., Ministry in the Local Church, London: Epworth, 1986, 6. (4) William F Arndt and F Wilbur Gingrich (eds), A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament, University of Chicago Press, 1957, 240. (5) Cited by R.L. Omanson, 'The Church' in Elwell, Walter A. (Ed), Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, Michigan: Baker, 1984, 231. (6) Hence the saying extra ecclesiam nulla salus, outside the church (there is) no salvation. Cf. Vatican I's (1869-70) affirmation: 'Outside the church no one can be saved .... Who is not in this ark will perish in the flood'. (7) Note article VII of the Augsburg Confession: (The church is) 'the assembly of all believers, in which the gospel is purely preached and the sacraments rightly administered according to the gospel'. (8) Cf T S Eliot's distinction between 'the Christian community' - the institutional church - and the 'community of Christians' - which is the 'church within the church. Emil Brunner's The Misunderstanding of the Church, draws a distinction between the ecclesia, the supernatural koinonia of Jesus Christ, and the church. Roland Allen, citing these usages, goes on to quote a D P Thomson, who said the people in our churches correspond closely to the people who surrounded Jesus during his earthly ministry. 'There were the 5000 - the curious, the interested crowd who came to see the miracles. And so in our churches there are the ....'fringers' .... Then there were the seventy - the people Jesus sent out two by two. These ... ae the dependable workers, the leaders of the organizations, seldom articulate, but loyal to their church. Then there were the twelve - the small band of people who had been confronted by Christ, and who had responded to his call. A narrower circle in our congregations, perhaps, but present in most of them. Then, finally,m the intimate friends of the Master who went with him to the Mount of Transfiguration - Peter, James and John. Are there not in our midst that tiny handful of those who have truly 'been with Jesus'?' The Face of My Parish, London: SCM, 1954, 50-1. (9) C S Lewis, The Screwtape Letters, New York, Macmillan, 1962, 15-16. (10) William Willimon, What's Right with the Church, San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1985, 23. I am indebted to his first chapter 'Where is the Church?' for some of the insights in this paper. (11) Richard Newhaus, Freedom for Ministry, San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1979, 11-12. (12) Cited in James D Smart, The Rebirth of Ministry, Philadelphia: Westminster, 1960, 177. (13) Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Life Together, San Francisco: Harper & Row, 1954, 27, 29. (14) Seward Hiltner, Ferment in Ministry, Nashville: Abingdon, 1969, 25. (15) Latin limen, threshold. Cf Victor Turner's notion of 'liminality' adapted to an ecclesiology by Tom Driver, 'Justice and the Servant Task of Pastoral Ministry', in Earl E Shelp & Ronald H. Sumnderland, The Pastor as Servant, New York: Pilgrim, 1986, 48. (16) Karl Barth, Dogmatics in Outline, New York: Harper & Row, 1959, 142. (17) J H. Jowett, The Transfigured Church, London: James Clark, 1910, 10-11. (18) Leonard Griffith, Ephesians: A Positive Affirmation, Word, 1975, 58-9. (19) David Watson, Fear No Evil, H. & S, 1984, 60. (20) Paul Hoon, The Integrity of Worship, Nashville: Abingdon, 1971,24. (21) Leonard Griffith, op cit, 9. (22) T S Eliot, 'The Hippopotamus', The Complete Poems and Plays, 1909-50, New York: Harcourt, Brace & Co., 1952, 30-31. (23) Jurgen Moltmann, The Church in the Power of the Spirit, London: SCM, 1977, 41. (24) Albert van den Heuvel, The Humiliation of the Church, London: SCM, 1966, 39. (25) Bruce Larson and Ralph Osborne, The Emerging Church, Waco: Word Books, 1970, 11. (26) van den Heuvel, op cit, 128-9. (27) see van den Heuvel, op cit, 52-6. (28) quoted in Virgil Wesley Sexton, Listening to the Church, Nashville: Abingdon, 1971, 152. (29) see, eg. Julio de Santa Ana, Towards a Church of the Poor, Geneva 1979. (30) Walter Buhlmann, The Coming of the Third Church, New York: Maryknoll, 1978. (31) Elizabeth O'Connor, Journey Inward, Journey Outward, New York: Harper & Row, 1968, 19. (32) see, eg, Donal Dorr, Spirituality and Justice, New York: Orbis, 1984: Kenneth Leech, The Social God, London: Sheldon, 1981; John Howard Yoder, The Politics of Jesus, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1972: Jim Wallis, Agenda for Biblical People, Harper & Row, 1976; Robert McAfee Brown, Theology in a New Key, Philadelphia: Westminster, 1978; Gustavo Gutierrez, A Theology of Liberation, Orbis, 1973; Donald P McNeill, Douglas A Morrison, Henri J M Nouwen, Compassion: A Reflection on the Christian Life New York: Doubleday, 1982, John Carmody, Holistic Spirituality, New York: Paulist, 1983; Dom Helder Camara, Revolution through Peace, Harper & Row, 1971, Frederick Herzog, Justice Church, Orbis, 1980; Waldron Scott, Bring Forth Justice, Eerdmans, 1980. (33) Jurgen Moltmann, et al, Hope for the Church, Nashville: Abingdon, 1979, 21.

PART B:WHAT DO WE MEAN BY 'RENEWAL'?

(1) Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination, Philadelphia: Fortress Press, 1978, 96. (2) What is the Living Church? quoted in A. Leonard Griffith,God and His People: The Renewal of the Church, Aldersgate, 1963, 5. (3) Gordon L Lippitt, Organizational Renewal, New York: Meredith Corporation, 1969. (4) Paul Hersey & Kenneth H. Blanchard, Management of Organizational Behaviour, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1977 3rd ed: (5) E Mansel Pattison, Pastor & Parish - A Systems Approach, Philadelphia: Fortress, 1977, 57-69. The Louis Allen Associates, an international business consulting firm, talk about a crucial 'corridor of crisis'/make-or-break adolescent stage between infancy and maturity. They note that of the 20 largest companies in the US forty years ago, only two are still among the first twenty in size. Of the one hundred largest companies twenty-five years ago, almost half have disappeared or have declined substantially from their peak. Cited in Robert D. Dale, To Dream Again, Nashville: Broadman, 1981, 20-21. Dale also cites David O Moberg, The Church as a Social Institution, New Jersey: Prentice-Hall, 1962, 118-124 as applying a life cycle approach to denominations. (6) Avery Dulles, The Survival of Dogma: Faith, authority and dogma in a changing world, Doubleday, 1973, 85. (7) see James D Whitehead and /Evelyn Eaton Whitehead, Method in Ministry: Theological Reflection and Christian Ministry, New York: Seabury, 1983, 15 ff. (8) quoted in Betty Scharf, The Sociological Study of Religion, London: Hutchinson, 1973, 54. (9) B. Malinowski, 'Science and Religion, a Symposium,' ed. J. Huxley, 1931, quoted in Scharf op cit 56. (10) Wayne Oates, The Psychology of Religion, Word, Waco, Texas, 1976, 181. (11) Paul W. Pruyser, A Dynamic Psychology of Religion, Harper & Row, 1976, 185-6. (12) J.H.Ellens, 'Ritual' in Benner, op cit, 1014 ff. (13) Arnold Van Gennep, The Rites of Passage, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1960. (14) Oates, op cit, 185. (15) Peter Drucker, Landmarks of Tomorrow, Harper & Brothers, chapters 1 & 2; quoted in John /W Gardner, Self-Renewal: The Individual and the Innovative Society, Harper, 1963, 7. (16) quoted by Franklin M Segler, The Christian Layman, Nashville: Broadman, 1964, 55. (17) James D Smart, The Rebirth of Ministry, Philadelphia: Westminster, 1960, 132, 135. (18) Smart, ibid, 137. (19) See Rowland Croucher, Recent Trends Among Evangelicals, Sydney: Albatross, 1986, 7 ff. (20) Whitehead and Whitehead, op cit, 5. (21) Howard Snyder, The Community of the King, Illinois: Inter-Varsity Press, 1977, 57. (22) Howard Snyder, op cit, 141-3. (23) J C Hoekendijk, The Church Inside Out, Westminster, 1964, 42-3. (24) Vincent Donovan, Christianity Rediscovered, SCM, 1978, 104-5. (25) Tom Allen, The Face of my Parish, London, SCM, 1954, 79, 88, 86. (26) W A Visser t'Hooft, The Renewal of the Church, SCM, 1956, 70ff. (27) Vincent Donovan, op cit, 162-3. (28) Joseph C. Aldrich, Life-Style Evangelism, Portland: Multnomah, 1978, 21.

PART C - BIBLICAL PRESCRIPTIONS FOR RENEWAL: CHURCH & MINISTRY IN EPHESIANS

(1) For the purposes of this study we will omit a discussion of the authorship and destination of Ephesians. I will assume Pauline authorship, and on open finding on the question as to whether this epistle was sent to Ephesus or was an encyclical, a circular-letter. (2) John Stott, quoting John A. Mackay, in God's New Society: The Message of Ephesians, Leicester: IVP, 1979, 16. (3) William Barclay The Daily Study Bible: The Letters to the Galatians and Ephesians, Edinburgh: St. Andrew Press, 1958, 99. (4) Howard A Snyder, The Community of the King, Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 1977, 55. (5) Barclay, op cit, 86. (6) Barclay, ibid., 88. (7) Frank E. Gaebelein (Ed), The Expositor's Bible Commentary, Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 1978, 11:24. (8) David Watson, Called and Committed: World-Changing Discipleship, Wheaton: Harold Shaw Publishers, 1982, 7. (10) Gaebelein, op cit, 11:77. (11) Barclay op cit,92-3. (12) John R W Stott, God's New Society: The Message of Ephesians, Leicester: IVP, 1979, 42. (13) Barclay op cit 101. (14) Note in The New Jerusalem Bible, NY: Doubleday, 1985, 1983. (15) New Jerusalem Bible, ibid, 1933. (16) Stott, op cit, 71. (17) Ibid, 71. (18) Ibid, 75. (19) quoted in Stott, op cit, 76. (20) Ibid. (21) Jerusalem Bible, ibid, 1935. (22) H.A.Virkler, 'Demonic Influence and Psychopathology' in Benner, David G., Baker Encyclopedia of Psychology, Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1985, 295, referring to Merrill Unger. (23) David Watson, The Hidden Battle, Shaw, 1980, 103. (24) John Stott, op cit, 283. (25) Martin Luther, exposition of 'Blessed are the meek' (Matthew 5:5) in The Sermon on the Mount, Luther's Works, Vol 21, Concordia, 1956, 23. (26) Stott, op cit., 219. (27) Barclay, op cit, 125. (28) Watson, Called and Committed, Shaw, 1982, 21. (29) Stott: 'In my view the 1662 Prayer Book marriage service was wrong to include (the verb 'obey') in the bride's vows. The concept of a husband who issues commands and of a wife who gives him obedience is simply not found in the New Testament. Op cit, 238. (30) A Leonard Griffith, Ephesians: A Positive Affirmation, Waco, Texas: Word Books, 1975, 49. (31) Faith and Order Conference of the WCC, Lausanne, 1927. (32) Omanson, in Elwell, op cit, 232. (33) Ray Stedman, Body Life, California: Regal Books, 1972, 25-26. (34) Richard F Lovelace, Dynamics of Spiritual Life, Illinois: Intervarsity Press, 1980, 168. (35) Michael Green, I Believe in the Holy Spirit, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1975, 101. (36) Dietrich Bonhoeffer, The Cost of Discipleship, Macmillan, 1959, 62, 63. (37) Ray S. Anderson, A Casebook for Theological Reflection, Fuller Theological Seminary Continuing Education Dept., n.d., 2. (38) George Goyder, The People's Church: A Layman's Plea for Partnership, quoted in Michael Harper, Let My People Grow! H. & S, 1977, 33. (39) Peter Wagner, Your Spiritual Gifts Can Help Your Church Grow, California: Regal, 1974, 40. (40) Ibid, 62. (41) Ibid, 151. (42) Quoted in Barclay, op cit, 104. (43) A. Leonard Griffith, Ephesians: A Positive Affirmation, Word, 1975, 32. (44) Albert van den Heuvel, These Rebellious Powers, SCM, 1966, 102. (45) A. Leonard Griffith, Ephesians, op cit, 32-33. (46) Ibid, 33. (47) Ibid. (48) George A. Buttrick, The Interpreter's Bible, Nashville: Abingdon, 1953, Volume 10, 636. (49) Barclay, op cit, 108. (50) A. Leonard Griffith, op cit, 55. (51) Barclay op cit, 151. (52) ibid. (53) Ibid, 152. (54) Jerusalem Bible, footnote, op cit, 1935. (55) Barclay, op cit, 153. (56) Jerusalem Bible, op cit, 1935. (57) Barclay op cit, 155-6. (58) Source unknown.