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In the ninth collection of stories, Workman connects the work and the worker. It is here, in the process of becoming a new person in Christ on the journey of life, that Workman hits a home run. Not as a matter of utility or intention, but as a matter of fact: serving people changes the servant. Here the remark 2 of Jesus, that it is more blessed to give than to receive, takes flesh in the modern church, not in the antagonisms or ambiguities of theological or doctrinal quarrels. Servants with the right attitude are some of the happiest, well-adjusted people in the world.
Encounter: Journal for Pentecostal Ministry, Summer 2009, Vol.6 Book Review A Reader in Pentecostal Theology Edited by Douglas Jacobsen (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 2006) 240 pages Reviewed by Raymond L. Gannon, Ph.D. President, Israel’s Redemption AGUSM Missionary and AG National Representative for Jewish Ministries Visiting Professor of Missions and Jewish Studies, Assemblies of God Theological Seminary Director of Messianic Jewish Studies, The King’s College and Seminary Douglas Jacobsen and Indiana University Press have done a service to Pentecostals everywhere but especially to students of Pentecostal historical theology with the publication of A Reader in Pentecostal Theology: Voices from the First Generation. Jacobsen’s objective is to demonstrate the chief sources of early Pentecostal thinking that laid the foundation for Pentecostal and Charismatic theologizing over the last one hundred years. Notably solid cases of Pentecostal foundation-laying, friendly disputes, antagonistic confrontations, and even show-biz eccentricities are illustrated in the observations of the personalities and proclamations of sixteen Pentecostal pioneering pillars. In the chronological order of each thinker’s publications, Jacobsen has put forth a biographical sketch on sixteen of the most outstanding influencers—theologians, denominational founders, or flamboyant preachers—upon the early Pentecostal movement. Each sketch is followed by writing or sermon samples from each of these early Pentecostal thinkers. The acknowledged pioneers include two Euro-American women: Maria Woodworth-Etter and Aimee Semple McPherson; five African-American men: 1 William Seymour, Richard Spurling, Garfield T. Haywood, Robert C. Lawson, and Charles H. Mason; and eight Euro-American men: Charles F. Parham, George F. Taylor, D. Wesley Myland, William H. Durham, A. J. Tomlinson, Joseph H. King, E. William Kenyon, and F. F. Bosworth. Persian immigrant Andrew David Urshan is also included. Jacobsen helps students of Pentecostal history learn the original sources of the twenty-first century’s ongoing debates surrounding: (1) “Jesus Only” teachings versus Trinitarian understanding of God (Haywood, Urshan); (2) health and wealth, Kingdom authority teachings (Kenyon); (3) the disappointment with race relations in the Pentecostal world (Seymour, Lawson); (4) advocates of highpowered Christian organizationalism (Tomlinson, McPherson); (5) restorationism to book of Acts Christianity (Spurling); as well as the more familiar (6) Spirit-baptism as the first, second, or third work of grace and the whole issue of the “finished work” (Durham, Myland). Jacobsen’s introduction to the text juxtaposes the various characters in terms of their respective controversial emphases.
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