Proclaiming Christ in the Power of the Holy Spirit: Opportunities and Challenges

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How may the church claim that Christ is the only Savior in a world in which tolerance

and relativism are prized and societies are increasingly religiously plural? How does

the Spirit empower believers and communities in their daily life and work as they face

formidable cultural and ideological challenges?

Such questions these essays answer. Half originated at Proclaiming Christ in the Face

of Challenges, the 2018 Scholars’ Consultation of Empowered21, a global network of

Spirit-empowered churches and communities. This Consultation’s location in Johannesburg

accounts for eight essays’ focusing on distinctively African concerns; another four center

on Asia and the Global South and three on Europe. Others address Western concerns of

modernism, postmodernism, secularism, and pluralism, while several probe biblical and

historical-theological foundations of Christian faith and its Spirit-empowered proclamation.

Readers will benefit from exploring the universality of the Christian gospel from its fi rst

proclamation and its proven adaptability to the cultural pluralism that is today’s global

reality, a flexibility that is faithful to God’s revelation and effective in imparting divine life

where proclaimed and believed.