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New Testament Norms for the Great Commission : = A Framework for Disciple-Making as a Communal Function of the Local Church.

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Title/Author:	New Testament Norms for the Great Commission :/
Reminder of title:	A Framework for Disciple-Making as a Communal Function of the Local Church.
Author:	Moore, Matthew Wayne.
Description:	1 online resource (242 pages)
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-06, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International84-06A.
Subject:	Theology. -
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ISBN:	9798358479746

New Testament Norms for the Great Commission : = A Framework for Disciple-Making as a Communal Function of the Local Church.
Moore, Matthew Wayne.

New Testament Norms for the Great Commission :A Framework for Disciple-Making as a Communal Function of the Local Church. - 1 online resource (242 pages)

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 84-06, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, 2022.

Includes bibliographical references

The thesis of this dissertation asserts that the Great Commission's disciple-making thrust necessitates the communal influence of the local church, which stewards the earthly means of transformation in Christ's advancing kingdom. The first chapter of this dissertation further explains the need for this research, defines its pertinent terms, and acknowledges the assumptions behind it. The second chapter examines some non-ecclesial approaches to disciple-making and categorizes them according to their deficiencies. These "replication models" seek to accomplish the Great Commission in ways inconsistent with the norms of the NT by favoring the record of Jesus' practices in the Gospels over the remainder of the NT. The resultant methods and models, while contributing to the overall disciple-making task, fall short in areas critically important to ecclesiology and missiology. Often promoted and executed by mission organizations and other parachurch groups, such models must be brought into the role of servant-partner with local churches in order to maintain practices consistent with NT norms.The third chapter examines Jesus' practice of disciple-making with the original twelve apostles first. His pattern connects a culturally understood teaching method with a grace-based appropriation that would later characterize the local churches of the NT and beyond. The accounts recording gospel advance in Acts seem to emphasize the communal aspect of the whole life of the church. The foreshadowing words of Jesus in Matthew 16 and 18 empower ecclesial disciple-making in a way that is not only possible but exponentially reproducible in the life of local churches spread far and wide as outposts of God's Kingdom.Chapter four interacts with select images of the church in the NT to discover the primary context of transformative disciple-making, which is the local church. The instructive usage of imagery develops the expectations and norms for believers' placement in the church, as well as relationships between the variety of members within the church. Specifically, metaphorical imagery reveals how Christians carry out service in the Kingdom to one another's benefit and to the benefit of the whole divinely designed structure. The essentiality of each member in relation to the rest of the body demands as ecclesial approach to disciple-making. Divorced from the operationally diverse unity of the local church, disciple-making efforts fall short.Chapter five addresses the content essential to transformative disciple-making, which is Christian Scripture. The Word of God initiates the church's existence and gives ongoing spiritual life to God's imagers as they are sustained and transformed by Scripture. The doctrine of the Trinity operates foundationally in understanding the imago Dei and thereby all the church's hermeneutical endeavors. Of supreme importance, God's imagers are constitutively relational, which means that biblical interpretation always occurs in community. The local church, being the ideal community guided by God, receives the task of apprehending universal truth and participating obediently in God's story of redemption. Such interaction ensures individual and corporate transformation.The sixth chapter acknowledges that disciple-making happens within a time-process that is set on course for Christ's coming kingdom. Each local church ought to increasingly reflect the realities of the kingdom as its local outpost. While the nations are in view in Great Commission completion, each local church bears a contextual responsibility to embody the coming kingdom and present an alternative to the world. Local churches realize their unique role in the kingdom by developing as community through memory, hope, and cooperation. Over time, community strengthens and renders the church a better reflection of the kingdom and more equipped to make disciples of the kingdom.Chapter seven summarizes the applications made throughout this research, which attempts to help local churches maximize and normalize their disciple-making efforts. As the primary context and steward of the content, the local church may embrace its role as the disciple-making community on its way to the consummate kingdom. This chapter concludes with the author's remarks and suggests some areas for further research.

Electronic reproduction.
Ann Arbor, Mich. :
ProQuest,
2023

Mode of access: World Wide Web

ISBN: 9798358479746Subjects--Topical Terms:

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New Testament Norms for the Great Commission : = A Framework for Disciple-Making as a Communal Function of the Local Church.
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