Pentecostal Preaching and Ministry in Multicultural and Post-Christian Canada
Ebook
Overview
Over the past forty years, Canada has become an increasingly secular, multicultural, and religiously plural society. Indeed, the church in Canada, and Pentecostals in particular, face a challenging context for responding to the call to bear witness to Christ in the power of the Holy Spirit. Like the disciples on the day of Pentecost, however, we need the Holy Spirit to come upon us and liberate us from our post-Christian pessimism. We need the Holy Spirit to enable us to proclaim the gospel to the nations, people that are no longer at the ends of the earth, but making their home in Canada. This book engages this new context, and considers and proposes ways that pentecostal Christians and churches can respond to the challenges of the increasingly post-Christian, multicultural, secular, and religiously plural context of Canadian society.
“The essays in this volume will help the Pentecostal church in
Canada better understand its changing context and challenge it to
consider how it can most effectively serve the Lord and minister in
the twenty-first century. Those from other Western, post-Christian
contexts would be wise to listen in to this conversation.”
—Andrew K. Gabriel, Vice President of Academics and Associate
Professor of
Theology, Horizon College & Seminary
“Out of my concern that the church in Canada represent Jesus well I
was motivated to attend McMaster Divinity College’s conference on
‘Pentecostal Preaching and Ministry in Multicultural and
Post-Christian Canada.’ I deeply appreciate that Steven Studebaker
has taken the time to compile the excellent material that was
presented that day. The content is informative, challenging,
inspiring, and applicable for those who seek with the Spirit’s
empowerment to participate in our shared mission in Canada.”
—David R. Wells, General Superintendent, Pentecostal Assemblies of
Canada; Vice-Chair, Pentecostal World Fellowship
Steven M. Studebaker is the Howard and Shirley Bentall Chair in
Evangelical Thought and Professor of Systematic and Historical
Theology at McMaster Divinity College. He is the author of A
Pentecostal Political Theology for American Renewal (2016) and
From Pentecost to the Triune God (2012), as well as several
other books on Jonathan Edwards’s trinitarian theology and
pentecostal theology.