Synopsis
Perhaps the most critical issue for healthy, growing churches is member care or life together, in keeping with the biblical emphasis on allalon--"one another." Member care demands that believers be passionately concerned for one another's spiritual welfare and physical and social well-being. This mutual care may be expressed in different ways, but they are always to be directed to the needs of the members of the body of Christ. That is the approach taken by the author of this book, which focuses on what may be construed as a negative subject--discipline. The hope is that a careful reading will reveal that Christian discipline, seen holistically, may be a most rewarding ministry, one that brings many benefits to healthy, growing churches as it nurtures loving relationships among people who care enough to speak the truth with love, as Jesus did.
About the Author
I was born in Guyana, South America where I grew up and received my early education. At the age of 19, I received Jesus Christ as my personal Saviour and Lord and was baptized. As a member of the Wismar Baptist Church, I served as deacon, associate and interim pastor among other ministries. Sensing the call of God and the affirmation of the Christian community, I immigrated to Canada with my family for further education. After graduation from Atlantic Baptist College (Crandall University), St. Thomas University, Acadia Divinity College - Acadia University, I served as pastor in several local congregations - on the South Shore, Annapolis Valley and Halifax, Nova Scotia. Other assignments included service as President of Convention of Atlantic Baptist Churches; Moderator of African United Baptist Association; and volunteer Chaplain with the Halifax Regional Police. I am currently employed (appointed 1st July, 2005) as Associate Professor of Practical Theology at Acadia Divinity College, Acadia University. I am married to Jemell, Social Worker with the Nova Scotia Provincial Government, and we have five children and six grandchildren. My chapter "Dare to Discipline: Christian Discipline in an Age of Litigation", was published in the book From Biblical Criticism to Biblical Faith: Essays in Honor of Lee Martin McDonald, 2007. In 2010, I was awarded the Distinguished Alumni Honor - Crandall University, Moncton, New Brunswick. In 2011 my book The Thirteenth Discipline , Wipf&Stock, Publishers, Eugene, Oregon, was published. I enjoy reading, fishing, gardening and more recently writing, as well as self-teaching on the acoustic guitar. One of my greatest joys comes from preaching and teaching the word of God.
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