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Pastoral Theology

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Pastoral Theology - 'Evil Unveiled' by David Hilborn 28 Jul 2006
On 31 October trick-or-treaters dressed as witches and monsters may well call at your door. William Friedkin’s controversial film The Exorcist, depicting a girl possessed by a demon, has been re-released 25 years after it first started turning heads (and stomachs). The Rolling Stones, self-styled ‘Satanic Majesties’ of the Sixties, are back on the road, and various less aged rock bands are still flirting with occult symbolism and black magic ritual.
Pastoral Theology - 'How do we uphold the right to private judgment, while still maintaining the authority of the church?' by David Hilborn 28 Jul 2006
The authority-liberty debate is especially pertinent for us as evangelicals because it is we, more than any other major grouping in church history, who have asserted our free conscience over against the magisterium of the Church. No doubt thanks to our high view of biblical authority v. ecclesiastical authority, we have characteristically put doctrinal truth above structural unity, and personal conviction above ecclesiastical conformism.
Pastoral Theology - 'Identification Repentance' by Peter T. Davies 28 Jul 2006
IR might even become an end in itself and a replacement for real mission, distracting Christians from evangelism as they pursue some (perhaps non-existent) explanation for a community’s state instead of simply sharing the gospel with its inhabitants.
Pastoral Theology - 'Identificational Repentance - Is it necessary? Is it biblical?' by Frank Green 28 Jul 2006
Identificational repentance is a term coined by John Dawson in Healing America's Wounds to describe a type of prayer which identifies with and confesses before God the sins of one's nation, city, people group, church or family. It may also involve formally apologising to and asking the forgiveness of representatives of the victims of the corporate sins (such as white Christians repenting of racism and asking a representative group of black people for forgiveness in a public ceremony).
Pastoral Theology - 'Identificational Repentance - Theology of Apology' by David Sladden 28 Jul 2006
This offering is little more than an account of where my own thinking has got to on the theology of apology, but designed to help others with theirs. The stage has not yet been reached where it is possible to write definitively on the matter. Clarification and discussion of the issues, rather, are what is needed.
Pastoral Theology - 'Identificational Repentance' by Randall Hardy 28 Jul 2006
This paper was originally prepared as a response to “Identificational Repentance: A Valid Christian Ministry?” (a paper by David Sladden - 22 June 1999). David’s paper was prepared for discussion within the Theological Reflection Group (TRG) which had been formed out of the British Isles Prayer Network Leaders Annual Conference. I said in the original paper that, like David’s paper, it was to be seen as constructive notes. I have lightly edited the original text in the hope of making it more accessible to those who were not involved in the TRG.
Pastoral Theology - 'The Biblical Foundations of Identificational Repentance as One Prayer Pattern Useful to Advance God's Kingdom and Evangelism' by Gary S. Greig 28 Jul 2006
Over the past few years, the prayer movement undergirding the final thrust of evangelism, especially in the 10/40 window stretching from the Mediterranean countries through East Asia, has grown explosively. The term 'identificational repentance' has been heard more and more in prayer conferences, prayer meetings, and outdoor prayer events.

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