TY  - MANSCPT
AU  - Rekers,George Alan
TI  - Pastoral modes in a theology of evangelism /by George Alan Rekers
AV  - BV3793 .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; 1 (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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