Scripture & Discernment: Decision Making in the Church Paperback - 1996
by Luke Timothy Johnson
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Luke Timothy Johnson begins his study of the practical issue of how decisions are made in the church by admitting to a bias: that there ought to be a connection between what the church claims to be, and how it does things. Because the church claims to be a community of faith, it does not reach decisions simply on the basis of good management policy, or the analysis of market trends, or efficiency, or even ideological consistency, but in response to God's activity in the world that presses upon us and urges us to decision. Faced with how to respond to God's leading, the church decides what to do on the basis of two realities: Scripture and discernment. Because it calls the church into being Scripture is the fundamental authority in the church's life. Yet it is not enough for a congregation simply to turn to the Bible when a decision must be reached, for Scripture does not directly address all issues which face the church today, and those it does often reflect greatly differing historical and social contexts than our own. Thus, added to the authority of Scripture in the church's decision making is a process of discernment, in which the members of the community, under the guidance of the Holy Spirit, recall how God has worked in their lives as individuals and as a community and discern together God's direction for the future. Johnson argues that this very pattern of decision making can be found in Scripture itself, notably in one of the central events of the book of Acts. Beginning with the conversion of Cornelius and culminating in the Apostolic Council of Acts 15, we see how a string of smaller narratives combine to tell the story of God's movement within their midst, and how thisnarrative became the basis for the reinterpretation of Scripture and the inclusion of Gentiles into the fellowship of the church. Looking at a number of thorny issues facing the contemporary church, Johnson demonstrates how the interaction of Scripture and discernment can and must become the basis for how we respond to the decisions with which the church wrestles today.
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- Title Scripture & Discernment: Decision Making in the Church
- Author Luke Timothy Johnson
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Subsequent
- Pages 168
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Abingdon Press, Nashville, Tennessee, U.S.A.
- Date 1996-03-01
- ISBN 9780687012381 / 0687012384
- Weight 0.57 lbs (0.26 kg)
- Dimensions 9.2 x 5.96 x 0.51 in (23.37 x 15.14 x 1.30 cm)
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Themes
- Religious Orientation: Catholic
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Theometrics: Academic
- Theometrics: Mainline
- Library of Congress subjects Group decision-making - Religious aspects -, Group decision-making in the Bible
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 95050579
- Dewey Decimal Code 262
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