[Ministry, Mission, And Money: The Role of Money and Its Impact on the Church And Her Mission]

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ABSTRACT

To understand any church institution as founded by Jesus, one must take account of its relationship to his work of bringing the Old Testament revelation and its institutions to their eschatological realization. A sample of the work of recent ecumenical dialogues (BEM and the international Lutheran- Roman Catholic document on church and justification) shows that their discussions of church institutions have failed to do this adequately. This failure has complicated the efforts at unity to which these dialogues intend to contribute. Attention to the Old Testament roots of church institutions can help ecumenical ecclesiology to focus better on some important issues. The mission thinking brought together in the CWME papers is broadly in the trinitarian paradigm of mission referred to as missio Dei. Therefore, a mission theology of the church is concerned with the participation of the church in God's mission to and in the world. This is broad enough: it encompasses “participation in God's mission for fullness of life”; practising “life in community”; incarnation of the gospel within each culture; witness and dialogue; proclaiming the truth of the gospel; and “witness in unity”. However, a mission theology of the church is distinguished not so much by content as by perspective. Because it is concerned with the church in the world, rather than the church per se, it has a particular concern with the actual, empirical church rather than the ideal church, with the church militant here on earth rather than the church triumphant, with the visible rather than the invisible church. Therefore, a mission theology of the church will include not only biblical and doctrinal discussion but also draw on historical and social studies.

Table of Contents

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ABSTRACTIV

CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION1

SECTION 1: MINISTRY, THE METHOD OF THE CHURCH1

Ministry in the Nation of Israel3

Ministry in the First Church-New Testament5

Ministry In The Early Church11

The prophetic call - what is prophetic ministry?11

Ministry in the Catholic Church17

Ministry in the reformation20

Ministry during the Great Revivals & the Rise of Denominationalism21

Ministry in the Contemporary Church24

SECTION 2: MISSIONS, THE PURPOSE OF THE CHURCH30

A Biblical Understanding of Mission33

Missions in the Catholic Church38

Missions in the Reformation Movement46

Missions in the New World49

Missionaries In History49

Modern Missionaries And Poverty50

Missions had been established in California by the beginning of the 19th century51

California Missions53

The group found extreme conditions of poverty in the American south54

Mother Teresa55

Missions from the New World to the Emerging Nations55

SECTION 3: MONEY, A TOOL IN THE CHURCH60

Money in Scriptures61

Money in Early Church62

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CHAPTER 1: INTRODUCTION

To nascent Christianity the synagogues in the ...