TY  - MANSCPT
AU  - Rekers,George Alan
TI  - Pastoral modes in a theology of evangelism
AV  - BV3793.R381.P378 1997 
PY  - 1997///
KW  - Evangelistic work
KW  - Pastoral theology
N1  - Typescript; Chapter 1: The Theological Research Problem and Research Goal: Identifying Deficiencies in Evangelistic Praxis; Chapter 2: A Theological Approach and Methodological Model: Addressing the Neglect of Evangelism in Contemporary Theologies; Chapter 3: The Theology of Evangelism Underlying Praxis 1: A Southern Baptist Theory of Evangelism; Chapter 4: Descriptive Theology Toward a Situational Analysis of Current Evangelistic Praxis: Study Variables Selected; Chapter 5: Theological Methods for a Situational Analysis: Sampling, Measures, and Hypotheses; Chapter 6: Results of the Situational Analysis of Current Praxis: Description, Correlations, and Hypothesis Testing; Chapter 7: A Multi-Modal Theology of Evangelism as Primary Initiation Into the Kingdom of God: A Revised Theory for Visitation Praxis 2; Chapter 8: A Theology of Pastoral Care for Evangelistic Visitation: Revised Theology for Praxis 2; Chapter 9: Constructive Change in Ecclesiastical Practice of Evangelism: Theory Based Recommendations for Praxis 2; Appendix; Includes bibliographical references (leaves 339-366 p); The Theological Research Problem; Potential Problem in the Theories Behind the CWT Model; Potential Problem in the Application of Theories; Inadequate Evangelistic Outreach to General Population; Inadequate Retention of Church Members; The Challenge of the Societal Context; Potential Problem in Both Theory and Application; Content-Based Evangelism; Manipulation-based Evangelism; Relationship-based Evangelism; Effects of Different Types of Evangelism; The Purpose of This Research Study; The Specific Goal of This Study; The Neglect of Evangelism in Contemporary Theologies; Neglect Related to Shifts in Soteriology; Neglect Related to Modernity and Post Modernity; Object of Theology; The Faith Relationship of Humans with God; Theory of Praxis Promoting Initial Encounter with God; Methodological Model for This Study; The Monodisciplinarity of "Applied Theology" ;; Multidisciplinarity, Interdisciplinary, and Intradisciplinary Models; Model Selected for the Present Study; The Type of Empirical Theology Adopted; Empirical Research in Practical Theology; The Object of Empirical Theology; Practical Theology as a Theological Operational Science; Deployment of the Zerfass Model to Study Theory and Current Praxis of Evangelism; Questions Pertaining to the Practical Theological Theory Underlying Southern Baptist Evangelism; The Prevailing Southern Baptist Theology of Evangelism; Baptist Faith and Message; Hobb's Interpretation of the Baptist Faith and Message; Drummond's Contemporary Theology of Evangelism; Descriptive Theology for Praxis 1; Encountering the Presence of God Through Pastoral Care or Counseling Dimensions of Evangelistic Visitation; Counselee's Perception of "Care-concern" by the Pastoral Counselor; Counselee's Satisfaction with the Pastoral Visit; Counselee's Positive Mood After a Pastoral Visit; Sense of God's Presence in the Pastoral Visit; Prayer to Establish a Relationship with God; Church Involvement by Counselee; Conversational Dialogue in the Effective Communication of the Gospel; Proportion of CWT Model Presentation Given; Length of Home Visit; Reasons for Omission of CWT Model Presentation; Summary; Participants; Procedures; Independent Variables Assesssed; Dependent Variables Assessed; Instruments; Care-Conern Scale (CCS) of the Therapist Rating Questionnaire; Client Satisfaction Questionnaire-Short Form (CSQ-S) ;; Positivity Index of the Session Evaluation Questionnaire, Form 3 (SEQ-3) ;; Questions on Perception of God's Presence in Session; Counselee's Prayer to Establish a Relationship with Christ; Lenski's Religious Involvement Scale (Rhode IslandS) ;; Conversational Dialogue Questions; Percentage of the CWT Presentation Given; Length of CWT Visit; Follow-up Equipper/Apprentice Questionnaire; Care; Intuitively Ruled Out; Hesitant or Unprepared; No Opportunity; Descriptive Statistics Regarding Current Praxis; Study Hypotheses; Central Study Hypotheses; Complete Versus Partial Presentation of the CWT Model Interview; Visit Length; Interaction of [a] the Variable of Complete Versus Partial Presentation of the CWT Model Interview and [b] the Length of the Home Visit; Church Involvement; Interaction of [a] the Variable of Complete Versus Partial Presentation of the CWT Model Interview and [b] the Church Involvement Variable; Conversational Dialogue Variable; Interaction of [a] the Variable of Substantial Versus Partical Presentation of the CWT Model Interview and [b] the Conversational Dialogue Variable; Interaction of [a] the Variable of Complete Versus Partial Presentation of the CWT Model Interview and [b] the Conversational Dialogue Variable; Summary; Participants; Reliability of New Measures; Validity of New Measure; Situational Analysis of Current Praxis; Descriptive Statistics; Church Involvement; Amount of CWT Model Presentation Given; Length of CWT Home Visit Counseling Session; Satisfaction; Positivity Index; Care-Conern; Perception of God's Presence; Summary of Dependent Measures on Counselee Reaction to Home Visitation Session; Conversion Prayer; Intercorrelations; Association of Variables; Hypothesis Testing; The Task of Revising Practical Theology Theory for Praxis 2; Summary of Empirical Findings on Praxis 1 Needing Theological Reflection; Description of CWT in Praxis 1; Amount of CWT Model Presentation Given; Visit Length; Interaction Between Amount of CWT Presentation Given and Visit Length; Previously Low Religious Involvement; Interaction Between Amount of CWT Presentation Given and Previously Low Religious Involvement; Praxis Problems Identified in Situational Analysis; Praxis Problem #1-Inconsistent Use of the CWT Model Presentation with Those with Unknown Relationship with God; Praxis Problem #2-One-Fourth Visited Dissatisfied; Praxis Problem #3-One-Fourth Visited Doubt God's Presence in the Visitation; Praxis Problem #4-31% Visited Already Evidenced Relationship with Christ; A Theological Model of Pastoral Role-Fulfillment as an Agogic Situation of Primary Initiation of a Person into the Kingdom of God; Evangelism as Primary Initiation Into the Kingdom of God; Evangelism as God's Transforming Action Through the Intermediary of Pastoral Role-Fulfillment; The Hermeneutic Moment and the Agogic Moment in Evangelism; Moving Beyond Limitations of Proclamation Alone to Agogic Evangelism; The Three Modes of Pastoral Role-Fulfillment Necessary for Evangelism; The Mode of Kerygma; Announcing the Active Rule of God Through Jesus Christ; CWT Should Connect the Hearer's Situation with the Saving Work of Jesus Christ; The Mode of Didache; Initiating Individuals into a Discipleship of Living "the Way" ;; Teaching the Truth of God's Actions Through Jesus Christ; CWT Should Initiate New Converts into the Life of Discipleship; The Mode of Paraklesis; Encouraging Transformation of Thoughts and Lifestyle; Addressing Individuals in Their Contingent Situation; CWT Should Address Individuals' Contingent Situations with Encouraging Care; The Action of God in Evangelistic Pastoral Role-Fulillment; The Action of God to Bring Individuals into His Kingdom Through These Three Modes of Ministry; God's Revelation of Himself and Pastoral Care/Concern in CWT Praxis; Evangelistic Pastoral Role-Fulfillment as an Agogic Situation; God Draws Near to Actualize Salvation; Need to Communicate the Depth of Human Predicament in CWT; A Radical Reorientation in Spiritual-Mental Functioning Should Be the Goal in CWT Prais; Summary; Pastoral Care, Pneumatology, and Ecclesiology; The Early Church Empowered for Evangelism by the Holy Spirit; Ecclesiological Models; The Church as Institution; The Church as Mystical Communion; The Church as Sacrament; The Church as Herald; The Church as Servant; Adopting Features of Various Ecclesiological Models; The Community of Faith as an "Ecology of Care" ;; Fowler's Incorporation of an "Ecology of Care" and "Ecology of Vocation" in His Practical Theology; Gill-Austern's Community Theory for Pastoral Care; A Community of Caring and Evangelism; Origins of a Practical Theology of Care for Evangelism in the Church's Encounter with the Needs of Others; What is the Gospel? ;; Evangelism and the Gospel; Verbal Proclamation of the Gospel; Eschatology, Caring Action, and Verbal Witness; Revision of the Conceptualization of Evangelism; Survey Data on the "De-Churched" Population; The Christian Community and Evangelism as Christian Initiation; Contemporary Definitions of Evangelism; The Parkletic Dimension of Care in Evangelism; Pastoral Home Visitation and Evangelism; Attracting the "De-Churched" ;; Interests of "Nonchurched" Individuals; Reported Factors That Would Draw "Nonchurched" Individuals to the Church; Expectations of "Unchurched" Individuals in the US and the Model of Jesus; Examples of Personal Needs Requiring Care; Communicating the Care of God to the Unchurched Individual; Pastoral Theology of Care and Counseling; Hiltner's Pastoral Theology as Study of Shepherding; Wise's Interpretation of the Meaning of Pastoral Care - Patton's Pastoral Theology of Care in Community; Oates' Pastoral Distinctives of Counseling Related to Evangelism; Distinctives of Pastoral Counseling Related to CWT; Tensions in Pastoral Counseling Related to CWT; Pastoral Evangelistic Outreach; Clinebell's Model of Pastoral Counseling; Gerkin's View of Pastoral Counseling in a Hermeneutical Mode; Elements of a Helping Relationship; Empathy; Unconditional Accepting Love; Genuineness; The Need for a Caring Relationship for Effective Evangelism; The Relationship Between Evangelism and the Care for Personal Needs; A New Self; A New Relationship; A New Potential; Evidence on the Relationship Between Sanctification and Well-Being; A Theory and Practice of Lay Christian Counselor Training; CWT Ministry as Lay Christian Caregiving or Counseling; Training or Lay Christian Caregiving and Counseling; Summary; Recommendations Regarding Praxis Problem#1-Inconsistent Use of the CWT Model Presentation with Those with Unknown Relationship with God; Incomplete Implementation of the CWT Model Presentation; Is Neglect to Deliver the Model CWT Presentation a Problem of Praxis? ;; Recommendations for Praxis 2 Formulated from the Theological Theory on Pastoral Role-Fulfillment; Exploratory Questions and Pastoral Diagnosis; Necessity of the Active Involvement of the Person Visited and Pastoral Response as Intermediary; Recommended Training in Pastoral Care of Unbelievers for CWT Apprentices; Three Relational Dimensions for Evangelistic Pastoral Visitation; Unhindered Receptivity in Witnessing Relationships; Pure Discernment in Witnessing Relationships; Creativity in Witnessing Relationships; Recommendations for Visits to Promote Initiation into the Kingdom of God; Refocusing CWT on Initiation into the Kingdom of God Rather Than Only Seeking a Conversion Prayer; Reconceptualizing the CWT Pastoral Visitor as Intermediary Change Agent; Recommendation to Communicate the Care of God in CWT-related Church Groups; Recommendations Regarding Praxis Problem #2-One-Fourth Visited Dissatisfied; Recommendations to Equip CWT Visitors to Increase Proportion of Those Visited Being Satisfied with the Visit; Initial Perception of Care-Conern Should be Preserved; Additional Opportunities for Caring for the Unchurched; Recommended Addition of a Caring Relationship Training Component on the Counseling Relationship; Recommended Revision of CWT's Implicit Eccleisology; Recommended Revision of CWT to Combine Pastoral Care with Evangelism to Address the Unchurched Person's Contingent Situation; Recommendation to Revise CWT to Use Contemporary Language to Enhance Satisfaction of Those Visited; Recommendations Regarding Praxis Problem #3-One-Fourth Visited Doubt God's Presence in the Visitation --- Need to Remove Barriers to Perception of God's Presence through Pastoral Roles of Didache and Paraklesis; Recommended Development of the Theology of Elenctics in Continuing Witness Training; Recommendation Regarding Praxis Problem #4-31% Visited Already Evidenced Relationship with Christ; Recommended Prescreening of Prospects for Visitation; Areas for Further Research; How Much Caring Do the Visited Individuals Perceive Over Time After CWT Visits? ;; Do Integrated Care Groups with CWT Visitation Help Initiate Seekers and New Converts? ;; How Do Individuals Successfully Initiated into God's Kingdom Differ from Those Who Drop Out of Church Contact? ;; Summary; Continuing Witness Training Presentation Outline; Questionnaire for CWT Visitation Counselor; Questionnaire Items for CWT Counselee; CWT Equipper and Apprentice Questionnaire; Letter to Barna Research Group, Lt.d; 2
N2  - This thesis has these specific goals: to determine the extent to which the relational factors of conversational dialogue and a caring relationship are presently perceived by the recipients of the CWT (Continuing Witness Training) presentation and by the pastoral visitors themselves; and, in this context, to assess the initial evangelistic effectiveness of CWT as it is employed in the practice of a Southern Baptist Church in South Carolina
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