June 1984 – Channels Magazine

Table of Contents

3. Spring 1984

COVER ILLUSTRATION: “Me and God in Hevin”, by Christian Baran.

ARTICLES

Editorial & Letters
Healing Values of Art – Jan Gray
Renewal and Revival – James I. Packer
The Place of Healing in the Contemporary Church – Jack Mills
Pastoral Care as a Healing Ministry – Elizabeth Zook
Worship Workshop: Two Songs – Bruce Robertson
1984 Annual Meeting – A. Donald MacLeod

REVIEWS

Summons to Faith and Renewal: Christian Renewal in a Post-Christian World, eds. Peter Williamson and Kevin Perrotta – David Ley
The Gravedigger File: Papers on the Subversion of the Modern Church, by Os Guinness – Alan Hartley

Editor J.H. (Hans) Kouwenberg reflects on the Lay Revolution, a phenomenon changing the face of North American Christianity, and reflected in the skill of a layman in the layout and production of Channels and a laywoman as Book Editor. … Read more

Health

Healing Values of Art

By Jan Gray. In a society that is becoming more and more saturated with images of violence, hopelessness, destruction and deception, we need, more than ever, to raise up images of light and hope. The power of art to bring spiritual healing is demonstrated in the life, art, and death of Christian Baran. … Read more

Renewal

Renewal and Revival

In an article written in 1976, James I. Packer examines the charismatic movement and compares and contrasts it with historical instances of renewal and revival. … Read more

Health

The Place of Healing in the Contemporary Church

Jack Mills discusses the place that healing ministry should have in today’s church. Some in the Reformed tradition hold that the spiritual gifts of healing ended with the apostolic age, while others believe that they are for today. Mills contends that the elders have a place in the healing ministry. … Read more

Health Ministry

Pastoral Care as a Healing Ministry

By Elizabeth Zook. Pastoral care happens when one walks into a risky situation and then offers oneself as Christ offered himself … to hurt with those who hurt, to cry with those who cry. … Read more

Worship

Worship Workshop: Two Songs

Here are two songs written by Bruce Robertson, a pastor at Burnaby Christian Fellowship, Burnaby, B.C. They are the property of Hallel Songs. Churches are welcome to copy them for overhead projector and congregational use. The words and music of the two songs appear in the PDF version of the page. … Read more

Renewal

1984 Annual Meeting

By A. Donald MacLeod. The bottom line in renewal is suffering. We crave renewal for its byproducts – filled churches, expanded programs, meaningful relationships – but are we prepared for that cost? … Read more

Renewal Reviews

Summons to Faith and Renewal: Christian Renewal in a Post-Christian World, eds. Peter Williamson and Kevin Perrotta

By David Ley. The roots of religious secularization are found in changing standards of sexual morality, an erosion of the doctrine of Christ, and an increasingly uninformed understanding of God, but the problem is not simply unbelief, but also the dilution of standards of behaviour among Christians themselves. … Read more

Renewal Reviews

The Gravedigger File: Papers on the Subversion of the Modern Church, by Os Guinness

By Alan Hartley. The revelation that the Director of Darkness, with minimal effort, has duped the church into digging its own grave, comes in The Gravedigger File, a series of classified memoranda turned over to the church by a defecting Satanic secret agent. By being uncritically identified with the modern world, the church has subverted itself from within. … Read more

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