PC101 Pastoral Ministry in a Missional Church
Overview
In Pastoral Ministry in a Missional Church (PC101), Mike Goheen examines the identity of the church according to the Bible and then considers the implications of this identity for the church’s mission. Beginning with the concept of a missional community in the OT, Goheen traces God’s work among His people into the NT community of believers and offers perspective on how the ministries of today’s church can be structured to fulfill God’s calling.
Top Highlights
“God’s mission is His long-term purpose or His long-term intention to restore the creation and all of human life. That story of God’s purpose to restore creation and to restore human life is told in the story of the Bible. And it especially moves, as it were, through three phases: through Israel, through Jesus, and finally through the church that is empowered by the Holy Spirit. So the story moves: Israel, Jesus, and the church.” (source)
“Richard Bauckham offers. He says that ‘a missional hermeneutic is a way of reading Scripture, first, in which mission is the hermeneutical key. Mission is a hermeneutical key. It’s not simply a study of the theme of mission in the biblical writings, but a way of reading the whole of Scripture with mission as its central interest and goal.’” (source)
“The second then is: ‘What is pastoral ministry in light of the missional church?’” (source)
“first, ‘the ot scriptures were written to equip God’s people for their missional calling to be a distinctive people.’” (source)
“‘The business of the sermon is to bring hearers face to face with Jesus Christ, as He really is.’” (source)
- Title: PC101 Pastoral Ministry in a Missional Church
- Author: Michael Goheen
- Series: Logos Mobile Education
- Publisher: Lexham Press
- Print Publication Date: 2014
- Logos Release Date: 2014
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Courseware
- Subjects: Pastoral theology; Mission of the church; Education › Pastoral theology
- Resource ID: LLS:PC101GOHEEN
- Resource Type: Courseware Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-02-12T05:02:07Z
Dr. Michael W. Goheen, professor of missiology at Calvin Theological Seminary, served as the Geneva Chair of Worldview Studies at Trinity Western University in Langley, British Columbia, and teaching fellow in mission studies at Regent College in Vancouver, British Columbia.
He has taught worldview, biblical theology, mission, and world Christianity at Redeemer University College and Dordt College. He began his professional life as a church planter and pastor in the Toronto area. He is also recognized as a leading scholar on the thought of Lesslie Newbigin.
Dr. Goheen has authored several books, including A Light to the Nations: The Missional Church in the Biblical Story (Baker, 2010) and As the Father Has Sent Me, I am Sending You: J.E. Lesslie Newbigin’s Missionary Ecclesiology (Zoetermeer, 2000). He also coauthored the best-selling Drama of Scripture: Finding Our Place in the Biblical Story (Baker, 2004), Living at the Crossroads: An Introduction to Christian Worldview (Baker, 2008), and The True Story of the Whole World: Finding Your Place in the Biblical Drama (Faith Alive, 2009). He has also coedited two volumes on globalization and the gospel, and on the unity of the church.
Dr. Goheen lives in the Vancouver area where he is minister of preaching at New West Christian Reformed Church. He’s been married to his wife, Marnie, for 33 years and has four married children and four grandchildren.