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Signposts on the Way: Theological Reflections on the Practice of Ministry

Signposts on the Way: Theological Reflections on the Practice of Ministry

          
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About the Book

This book invites clergy and lay people engaged in Christian mission and parish ministry today to take time out to think about what we can learn from our recent past.

You will be encouraged by Ferguson's uplifting, inspiring and pragmatic insights gained from 50 years of ministry.

He shows how local ministry is informed by sustained theological reflection. He has worked on the frontiers between the church and the secular city in Wellington, Auckland and Sydney. Ferguson has shared many ecumenical initiatives including the Inner City Ministry, the formation of the Uniting Church in Australia and setting up the Sydney College of Divinity.

He has worked cross-culturally with the Greek and the Korean communities. Each fresh initiative has raised new theological questions.

To help you engage with the text, the book is well indexed, has many footnotes and has a comprehensive table of contents.

There are also many pull quotes sprinkled throughout the book which highlight the author's insights.

For example:

  • "...its ministers must decide whether they are going to allow themselves to be manipulated by the power elites, to serve them in the furtherance of their policies."

  • "The task of the Church is to discern the places in the life of the city where Christ is about his saving work and set out to join him there."

  • "Giving people the freedom to exercise their creativity in practical ways that reach achievable goals is exhilarating."

  • "The Scriptures are infuriating. They are rarely lucid or clear."

  • "Our capacity for innovative response is restricted only by the limit of our vision."

  • "I wanted people going into ministry to love the Church, understand it well and serve it selflessly and wholeheartedly."

  • "People have a great ability to set limits to their understanding. They are not prepared to go deeper into faith."

  • "Where the Church insists on a higher authority or a set of truth claims that cannot be questioned or examined, the Church is in trouble."

    Praise for Signposts on the Way

    "...This is a profound book and not for casual reading. Congregations willing to study and reflect may gain a better understanding of what it means to be the people of God amid the challenges, duties, opportunities, disappointments, joys and sorrows of their particular circumstances." Rev John Meredith, Editor Word and Worship

    "Signposts on the Way is a sincere and deeply thoughtful insight into the place of Christian faith in a half century in which it has been subject to doubts, critical analysis, outright rejection and downright abuse. Ferguson makes a strong case for the consistency, insight and value for humanity of the Christian story." Rev Prof William Emilsen, Research Professor Charles Sturt University, Sydney

    "This is good stuff. I needed to read this at a time when so much around us is dark and troublesome." Ven Dr John Chryssavgis. Theological consultant to the Patriarch of Constantinople

    About the Author

    After under-graduate work at Auckland and Otago, Dr Ferguson completed his doctorate on Calvin at Cambridge.

    In 1965 he was called to be minister of Kent Terrace Presbyterian Church, Wellington, where he shared in forming the Inner City Ministry, a model of ecumenical cooperation in the city.

    In 1975, he was invited to become the inaugural Principal of United Theological College, Sydney, an ecumenical college that prepared people for ministry in the soon to be formed Uniting Church in Australia. He helped establish the Sydney College of Divinity.

    In 1988 he became senior minister of St David's Church, Auckland. He served the Assembly as convener of the International Relations and the Doctrine Committees. Dr Ferguson retired in 2000.


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    Product Details
    • ISBN-13: 9781707767526
    • Publisher: Independently Published
    • Publisher Imprint: Independently Published
    • Height: 229 mm
    • No of Pages: 290
    • Spine Width: 15 mm
    • Weight: 394 gr
    • ISBN-10: 1707767521
    • Publisher Date: 12 Nov 2019
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Language: English
    • Returnable: N
    • Sub Title: Theological Reflections on the Practice of Ministry
    • Width: 152 mm


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