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Endnotes: LAY MOBILIZATION Gene
1. Thomas Coke, entry for Sunday 14 November, 1784, Extracts of the Journals of the Rev. Dr. Coke's Five Visits to America (London: G. Paramore, 1793), 16.
2. Don Cupitt, Radicals and the Future of the Church (London: SCM Press, 1989), 138.
3. See among other sources, John S. Simon, John Wesley and the Methodist Societies (London: Epworth Press, 1937), 22-23.
4. Quoted in J. Oswald Sanders, Spiritual Leadership (Chicago: Moody Press, 1967), 69.
5. David L. Smith's All God's People: A Theology of the Church (Wheaton, IL: Bridge Point Book, 1996) makes the distinction between "fundamental ministry" and "specialized ministry."
6. See Richard Warren, The Purpose Driven Church: Growth Without Compromising Your Message and Mission (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Pub. House, 1995.
7. Michael Slaughter, Spiritual Entrepreneurs: Six Principles for Risking Renewal (Nashville: Abingdon, 1995).
8. Carl F. George, Prepare Your Church for the Future (Tarrytown, N.Y.: Fleming H. Revell, 1991), 193.
9. Dannie Abse, Intermittent Journals (Bridgend, Wales: Seren, 1994), 222-23.
10. Leonard I. Sweet, FaithQuakes (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1994), 33.
11. Mary F. Rousseau, "The Ministry of the Laity," New Oxford Review 52 (June 1995): 8-10+.
12. Jim Wallis, "Life's Unlimited Value and Our Limited Resources," in Life as Liberty, Life as Trust, ed. J. Robert Nelson (Grand Rapids, Mich.: W.B.Eerdmans, 1992), 22.
13. 13. Chuck Lathrop, A Gentle Presence (Washington, D. C.: Appalachian Documentation, 1977), 7.
14. Thanks to Richard Heyduck (Texas Annual Conference) for this analogy.
15. As reported in Guy Kawasaki, How to Drive Your Competition Crazy: Creating Disruption for Fun and Profit (New York: Hyperion, 1995),
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16. Rowan Williams, A Ray of Darkness: Sermons and Reflections Practices (Cambridge, Mass.: Cowley Publications, 1995), 157.
17. For some sample "Position Descriptions" which can be adopted and adapted to a variety of ministries in the church, see the Appendix to Brian Kelley Bauknight, Body Building: Creating a Ministry Team Through Spiritual Gifts (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996), 101-109. Columbia Baptist Church in Falls Church, Virginia publishes every year a twenty-page directory of "Ministry Opportunities" that is chock full of ways one can be a minister.
18. Brian Kelley Bauknight, Body Building: Creating a Ministry Team Through Spiritual Gifts (Nashville: Abingdon Press, 1996), 33.
19. Brad Johnson, "Innovations for the Disciple-making Congregation," Growing Disciples 2 (April-June 1996), 26-27.
20. "Maximum Ministry," Discipleship Journal, November/December 1995, 60-62.
21. Peter F. Drucker, Foreword: "Not Enough Generals Were Killed," in The Leader of the Future: New Visions, Strategies, and Practices for the Next Era, ed. Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith, Richard Beckhard (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996), xi.
22. Peter F. Drucker, Foreword: "Not Enough Generals Were Killed," in The Leader of the Future: New Visions, Strategies, and Practices for the Next Era, ed. Frances Hesselbein, Marshall Goldsmith, Richard Beckhard (San Francisco: Jossey-Bass, 1996), xi-xii.
23. Jenkins' story is found in David Weeks and Jamie James, Eccentrics: A Study of Sanity and Strangeness (New York: Villard Books, 1995), 89-90.
24. Post-synodal Apostolic Exhortation Christifideles Laici of His Holiness John Paul II on the Vocation and the Mission of the Lay Faithful in the Church and in the World (Boston: Daughters of St. Paul, 1988).
25. Bruce Bugbee, What You Do Best: in the Body of Christ: Discover Your Spiritual Gifts, Personal Style, and God-Given Passion (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Zondervan Publishing House, 1995).
26. S. M. Ravi Kanbur, Poverty and Development: The Human Development Report and the World Development Report, 1990 (Washington, D.C.: World Bank (1818 H Street NW, Washington, DC 20433), 1991.
27. Susie Stanley, "Empowered Foremothers: Wesleyan/Holiness Women Speak to Today's Christian Feminists," Wesleyan Theological Journal 24 (1989): 103-16.
28. Kenneth Kinghorn, "Discovering Your Spiritual Gifts," Discipleship Journal, November/December 1995, 54-58.
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