July 1986 – Channels Magazine

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

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

Daily Faith Reviews

Decision-Making and the Will of God, by Gary Friesen and J. Robin Maxson

By Greg Dallimore. The working out of God’s plan for the world is God’s sovereign will alone, hidden to us. God’s “moral” will is revealed through the Bible, and man is to believe it and live by it. God also has an “individual” will for each believer. … Read more

Daily Faith Reviews

The Timothy Principle, by Roy Robertson

By Stephen Jenvey. This book covers basic principles needed in one’s life before fruitful discipleship can take place: consistency in the daily devotional life, understanding and being able to explain the plan of salvation, having a prayer plan, and approaches to Bible study … Read more

Evangelism Reviews

Evangelism: A Way of Life, by Rebecca Pippert and Ruth Siemens

By Jim Walton. This book is a compilation of twelve inductive Bible studies to help with discovering and understanding a biblical perspective of evangelism and integrating it into one’s lifestyle. … Read more

Evangelism Reviews

Evangelism For Our Generation, by Jim Petersen

By Jim Walton. Believers must make it their priority to make the spiritual climate of the society in which they live to work in favour of the growth of the gospel rather than allowing it to isolate themselves from the people they are attempting to reach. … Read more

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