2. At a church leaders’ conference in Dallas, 1986

3. Prayer and Modern Man, NY: Seabury, 1979, p.19

4. Gene Getz, Building Up One Another, Wheaton, Illinois: Victor Books, 1976, 110-120.

5. Barbara N. Woods, Decision magazine, October 1982.

6. W E Sangster, The Pure in Heart: A Study in Christian Sanctity, London: Epworth, 1954, p.140.

7. Ibid. p.146

8. William Barclay, The Promise of the Spirit, London: Epworth, 1960, 55ff.

9. James S. Stewart, The Wind of the Spirit, Eastbourne: Victory Press, 1975, 14-15.

10. Jurgen Moltmann, The Church in the Power of the Spirit, London: SCM, 1977, 36.

11. J.I.Packer, Keep in Step with the Spirit, Leicester: IVP, 1984, 205-6.

12. Peter Wagner, Leading Your Church to Growth, Ventura, California: Regal Books, p. 200.

13. Denis Waitley, Seeds of Greatness, New Jersey: Revell, 1983, p.148.

14. Dom Helder Camara, A Thousand Reasons for Living, London: Darton Longman and Todd, 1984, p.56.

15. Ervin Henkelmann and Stephen Carter, How to Develop a Team Ministry and Make it Work, Concordia, 1985, p.90

16. Readers’ Digest, May 1987, pp. 91-93.

17. Paulo Freire, Pedagogy of the Oppressed, Seabury, New York, 1968.

18. Henri J. M. Nouwen, Creative Ministry, New York: Doubleday, 1978, pp. 5-14.

19. John R W Stott, Between Two Worlds: The Art of Preaching in the Twentieth Century, Michigan: Eerdmans, 1982, pp. 60ff.

20. Erik Erikson, Insight and Responsibility, Norton, 1964; James Fowler, Stages of Faith, Harper & Row, 1981; Gabriel Moran, Religious Education Development, Winston, 1983; Gerald O’Collins, The Second Journey, Dove, 1978, Evelyn and James Whitehead, Christian Life Patterns, Doubleday, 1979.

21. John Claypool, Stages: The Art of Living the Expected 1977, Word Books, Waco, Texas, p. 60.

ENDNOTES

1. Thomas C. Oden, Pastoral Theology: Essentials of Ministry, San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1983, 88.

(2) Don M. Wardlaw, ‘A two-track program of educating a congregation in worship’, unpublished paper).

(3) Don M Wardlaw, ‘Letting the Whole Person Worship’, unpub- lished paper, p.3.

2. David Watson, I Believe in the Church, H & S, 1978, 258, quoting from J-J von Allman (ed), Vocabulary of the Bible, Lutterworth, 348.

3. In the apostolic church there are several instances of foretelling (Acts 11:27f, 21:9ff, Paul in 1 Corinthians 15:51, 1 Thessalonians 4:14-18, Peter 2 Peter 3:10ff., and of course the Book of Revelation).

4. Quoted in Time’s review of Abraham Heschel, The Prophets, Harper & Row, 1962, Time, January 25, 1963 p.42.

5. David Watson, I Believe in the Church, London: H & S, 1978, 112-113.

6. Hans Kung, The Church, London, Burns and Oates, 1968, p.433.

7. C. Rene Padilla (ed.), The New Face of Evangelicalism, H & S, 1976.

8. Jim Wallis, Sojourners 9:1, January 1980, 11.

9. Kenneth Leech, The Social God, London: Sheldon, 1981.

10. Matthew Fox, A Spirituality Named Compassion, San Francisco, Harper & Row, 1979, p.[i].

11. Cited by Fox, ibid, p.19.

12. Jacques Ellul, Money and Power, Downers Grove, Ill.: Intervarsity Press, 1984.

13. Ronald Sider, Rich Christians in an Age of Hunger, Downers Grove, Ill.: InterVarsity Press, 1977.

14. Leon Morris, ‘Church Government’ in Walter A. Elwell (ed.), Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1984, 238 ff. Morris makes the same point in his Ministers of God, London: IVF, 1964.

15. J.G.S.S. Thomson and W.A. Elwell, ‘Spiritual Gifts’ in Walter A. Elwell, Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1984, 1042ff. A helpful study-book on this subject is Robert Hillmann’s 27 Spiritual Gifts, Melbourne: JBCE, 1986).

16. James D.G.Dunn, Unity and Diversity in the New Testament: An Inquiry into the Character of Earlist Christianity, London: SCM, 1977.

17. John Macquarrie, Christian Unity and Christian Diversity, Philadelphia: SCM, 1975, preface, p.7.

18.Don Cupitt, ‘One Jesus, Many Christs?’, in S.W.Sykes and J.P.Clayton, eds., Christ, Faith and History, CUP 1972, 131-44.

19. Donal Dorr’s Spirituality and Justice, NY: Orbis, 1984, posits the thesis, based on Micah’s affirmation and Jesus’ paraphrase of it, that all Christians need three conversions: political, social, and personal.

20. David Tripp, ‘Fasting’ in Wakefield, Gordon S. (ed), A Dictionary of Christian Spirituality, London:SCM, 1983, 148.

21. R.D. Linder, ‘Fasting’, in Elwell, (ed), Evangelical Dictionary of Theology, Michigan: Baker Book House, 1984, 406-407).

22. Richard Foster, Celebration of Discipline, H&S, 1980, chapter 4. I heard Richard Foster give a lecture at Fuller Seminary on fasting where he suggested fasting from such entities as the telephone, billboards, television and other things – any deprivation that may get our means and ends into perspective for a while.

23. See J L Freedman, Crowding and Behavior, NY: Viking Press, 1975.

24. eg R. Ardrey, The Territorial Imperative, NY: Atheneum, 1966, p.5

25. On the notion of ‘sheep-stealing’ as territorial behaviour see Lyle Schaller, Effective Church Planning, Nashville: Abingdon, 1979, chapter 2 ‘The Importance of Place’, pp. 65 ff. For an interesting discussion of ‘parish’ as territorial behaviour, see Andrew Greeley, Confessions of a Parish Priest, New York: Pocket Books, 1987, pp.81 f.

26. Rowland Croucher, Recent Trends Among Evangelicals, Part 3: ‘Creative Spirituality’, Sydney: Albatross, 1986, 59ff.

27. Edward Schillebeeckx, Ministry: A Case for Change, London: SCM, 1981, 21, 135.

28. Ibid., 135,139.

29. Edward Schillebeeckx, The Church With a Human Face, SCM, 1985, 119-120.

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