18
22
J.I.Packer, God Has Spoken (Downers Grove: InterVarsity Press, 1979) 135.
23
Ibid. 135.
24
Eddie Gibbs, 184. Gibbs makes this point by citing David Hillborn: "My suspicion is that to be
effective in the postmodern world, evangelical preachers will need much less to show people the
expository wheels going round. The exegetical apparatus will still be necessary, but it will
function less as the framework of the sermon and more as its scaffolding. It will have to be
removed from view before the sermon is preached." [Picking Up the Pieces (London:Hodder and
Stoughton, 1997) 60.]
25
Thomas G. Long, "The Witness of Preaching," in Ministry, July 2001. 9.
26
Michael S. Horton, 253.
27
Ibid. 251.
28
John H. Armstrong, The Coming Evangelical Crisis, 23.
29
Rick Warren, The Purpose Driven Church (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1995)
230.
30
Ibid. 228..
31
William H. Willimon, "This Culture Is Overrated," Leadership, Winter 1997. 29-30.
32
Millard J. Erickson, Where is Theology Going? 96.
33
Ibid. 95.
34
David Fisher, The 21
st
Century Pastor (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1996) 76.
35
Millard Erickson, Christian Theology (Grand Rapids: Baker Book House, 1985) 1026.
36
David Fisher, The 21
st
Century Pastor, 76.
37
Ibid., 76.
38
Ibid., 76.
39
For much of this discussion of the theological character of ecclesiology I am indebted to David
Fisher's analysis in The 21
st
Century Pastor, pp. 70-88.
40
Ibid., 78.
41
Donald McCullough, "Coming to Terms With Technique," Christianity Today, Fall 1993. 84.
42
Greg Ogden, The New Reformation (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1990) 32.
43
David Fisher, The 21
st
Century Pastor, 81.
44
Thomas C. Oden, Pastoral Theology. 62.
45
Ibid., 11.
46
Michael S. Horton, 246.
47
Courtney Campbell, "Religion and Moral Meaning in Bioethics," On Moral Medicine:Theological
Perspectives in Medical Ethics, Stephen E. Lammers and Allen Verhey, eds. (Grand Rapids: Wm
B. Eerdmans, 1998) 24-25.
48
Stanley Hauerwas, Suffering Presence, 2.
49
Cited in Jerome P. Wernow, This Vital Death, 1994. A dissertation presented to the Faculty of
Theology of the Katholieke Universiteit Leuven. 677.
50
Stanley Hauerwas, 2.
51
Leith Anderson, Decade of Volatility: 10 Powerful Trends Facing the Church (Self-published as
a National and International Religion Report, 1991. 18-19.