Renewing the Vision

These essays and sermons are by twenty well-known Presbyterian scholars, pastors, and church leaders who seek to shape a vision for the theological center of the Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.). The book is organized around five themes: Christology and preaching, the church and evangelism, mission and service, the authority and interpretation of Scripture, and ecumenism and the Reformed tradition. Each section includes two essays and two sermons.

Introduction

vii

Acknowledgments

xiii

Contributors

xv

Part 1 Believing God's Good News

The Good News

3

(9)

Shirley C. Guthrie

Jesus Christ as Host and Guest

12

(12)

Amy Plantinga Pauw

Sermons

The Narrow Door

24

(8)

Jon M. Walton

The Hem of His Garment

32

(7)

Joanna M. Adams

Part 2 Being a Hospitable Church

Come as You Are: The Hospitable Church in the Book of Confessions

39

(12)

Ellen L. Babinsky

The Church and God's Pentecostal Gift

51

(15)

Letty M. Russell

Sermons

The Church That Is Alive Is Loyal to the Past but Open to the Future

66

(8)

Robert Bohl

To Bless the Whole Human Family

74

(9)

Robert A. Chesnut

Part 3 God's People Sent

Becoming the Salt and the Light

83

(12)

John M. Buchanan

The Great Commission: Progress Report

95

(11)

William H. Hopper, Jr.

Sermons

Mud and Meeting People

106

(5)

Anna Carter Florence

Run the Risk

111

(10)

Brian K. Blount

Part 4 Living by Scripture

Scripture: The Word of Life

121

(13)

W. Eugene March

Reading the Bible and Reflecting on History

134

(14)

Jack Rogers

Sermons

Where Do You Get That Living Water?

148

(7)

Sheila C. Gustafson

Biblical Authority

155

(10)

Laird J. Stuart

Part 5 Bound Together in Christ's Name

Bound Together in Christ's Name: A Reformed Perspective on the Ecumenical Movement

165

(13)

Jane Dempsey Douglass

``Through Times of Challenge, Controversy and Hope''

178

(17)

Deborah F. Mullen

Sermons

Of Quarks and Quirks

195

(6)

Linda C. Loving

Multiculturalism or Cultural Circumcision?

201

(11)

Karen Hernandez-Granzen

Appendix A Call to Covenant Community

212

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