1986 – Channels Magazine

11. Fall 1986

COVER PHOTO: a small group in action. Photo credits: Don Wilde, Vancouver – cover; Gord Jarrett, Toronto – pp. 1, 6.

ARTICLES

Letters
Elders’ Pastoral Care Groups: A System for Pastoral Oversight – James Statham
Strengthening Our Prayer Ministries as a Fellowship – C. Gordon Ross
Why I Need a Small Group (and maybe you do too!) – J.H. (Hans) Kouwenberg
Worship Workshop: A Draft Order for the Lord’s Supper – Brian J. Fraser et al
Worship Workshop: A Response – Calvin Brown
What Does Revival Look Like? – Esther Mcllveen
The Renewal Fellowship and Our Theological Colleges – Lincoln G. Bryant

REVIEWS

Come Before Winter and Share My Hope, by Charles R. Swindoll – Jack Charleson
A Commentary on the First Epistle to the Corinthians, by David Prior – William Campbell
Dutch Calvinism in Modem America: A History of a Conservative Subculture, by James D. Bratt – J. H. (Hans) Kouwenberg

Editorial

Letters

Readers correspond with approval for the ministry of Channels. Greg Dallimore responds with an update on his previous Review … Read more

Pastoral Care

Elders’ Pastoral Care Groups: A System for Pastoral Oversight

James Statham outlines a system whereby elders’ pastoral care could be organized along natural relationships and make use of the variety of gifts elders exhibit, allowing the elders to become key facilitators, encouraging the assimilation of members and adherents into the life of the congregation. … Read more

Prayer

Strengthening Our Prayer Ministries as a Fellowship

By Dr. C. Gordon Ross. At a workshop following the annual meeting of the Renewal Fellowship, held in Knox Presbyterian Church, Toronto, on March 8, a number of ways were discussed to help congregations improve their prayer life. … Read more

Pastoral Care

Why I Need a Small Group (and maybe you do too!)

By J.H. (Hans) Kouwenberg. Why do I need a small group? To study and grow together. To learn to work together with variety of viewpoints. To be held accountable. To be encouraged and supported. To share deeply: to sorrow and to celebrate together. … Read more

Worship

Worship Workshop: A Draft Order for the Lord’s Supper

By Brian J. Fraser et al. In conversations with ecumenical partners, Presbyterian students at the Vancouver School of Theology have a proposed service which they use in weekly worship. … Read more

Worship

Worship Workshop: A Response

By Calvin Brown. Although we value the beauty and dignity of the order in the present Book of Common Order, for a congregation of young people (especially those from non-church backgrounds), it is the product of a “foreign” culture. A service in their own culture that contains the essence of the faith, may be in the end more useful in the Kingdom. … Read more

Renewal

What Does Revival Look Like?

By Esther Mcllveen. Usually revival is mentioned in connection with the church. I wonder if God is saying to us, “Your emphasis is in the wrong place. Try the home.” … Read more

Education

The Renewal Fellowship and Our Theological Colleges

By Lincoln G. Bryant. At the 1986 Annual Meeting, discussion identified six areas through which members of the Renewal Fellowship Within The Presbyterian Church In Canada can work for the renewal of our theological colleges. … Read more

Daily Faith Reviews

Come Before Winter and Share My Hope, by Charles R. Swindoll

Reviewed by Jack Charleson. These daily reflections, backed by appropriate Scripture passages, can be used to develop a meaningful quiet time or provide a worthwhile supplement to devotions. … Read more

Reviews Theology

A Commentary on the First Epistle to the Corinthians, by David Prior

Reviewed by William Campbell. This readable study of 1 Corinthians will be helpful for Christians to trace Paul’s thought as he wrote to the church at Corinth, whose members were participating in the same serious sins as Presbyterians do in 1986! … Read more

History Reviews

Dutch Calvinism in Modem America: A History of a Conservative Subculture, by James D. Bratt

Reviewed by J.H. (Hans) Kouwenberg. With its well-documented research (18 pages of selected bibliography) and 80 pages (!) of helpful notes, this book is literally a “Who’s Who” of Dutch Calvinism in America. … Read more

Table of Contents

10. Summer 1986

COVER PHOTO: James I. Packer speaking at Knox Church, Toronto, at the Annual Meeting in March, 1986. Photo credits: Gord Jarrett, Toronto – cover, pp. 2,3; Bob Jemison, Vancouver – pp. 11, 16.

ARTICLES

Annual Meeting Report & Letters – A. Donald MacLeod
John Wimber: Seeking Intimacy with God – Peter H. Davids
We Are Not Alone – J. Barry Forsyth
The Real Preacher – James I. Packer

REVIEWS

Decision-Making and the Will of God, by Gary Friesen and J. Robin Maxson – Greg Dallimore
The Timothy Principle, by Roy Robertson – Stephen Jenvey
Evangelism: A Way of Life, by Rebecca Pippert and Ruth Siemens – Jim Walton
Evangelism For Our Generation, by Jim Petersen – Jim Walton

History Theology

Annual Meeting Report & Letters

Donald MacLeod describes the wide variety of seminars and talks that occurred at the Annual Meeting, with the theme, “The Holy Spirit and Ourselves”. A number of letters follow in reaction to the article on John Wimber in the previous issue … Read more

Theology

John Wimber: Seeking Intimacy with God

In this extensive article, Peter H. Davids examines several important reasons why people have reacted against the ministry of John Wimber, and he explains in detail what he perceives as Wimber’s main objectives. … Read more

Renewal Theology

We Are Not Alone

J. Barry Forsyth represented the Renewal Fellowship at a meeting of renewal leaders in Washington D.C. With representatives of so many organizations present, it was evident that we are not alone in the Renewal Fellowship Within The Presbyterian Church in Canada. … Read more

Theology

The Real Preacher

By James I. Packer. The business of preachers of the Word is to be mouthpieces for God’s message, seeing their ministry of the Word as prophecy: precisely speaking the Word of God with application, as a message to the hearers. … Read more

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