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Ordained Servant a Journal for Church Officers a Publication of the Committee on Christian Education of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church OrdainedServant A Journal for Church Officers VOLUME 24, 2015 Ordained Servant A Journal for Church Officers A publication of the Committee on Christian Education of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church ISSN 1525-3503 Volume 24 2015 Editor: Gregory Edward Reynolds • 827 Chestnut Street • Manchester, NH 03104 Telephone: 603-668-3069 • Electronic mail: [email protected] Website: www.opc.org/os.html Ordained Servant is published monthly (except for combined issues June/July and August/September) online as Ordained Servant Online (E-ISSN 1931-7115, online edition), and printed annually (ISSN: 1525-3503) after the end of each calendar year, beginning with volume 15 (2006) published in 2007. Ordained Servant was published quarterly in print from 1992 through 2005. All 53 issues are available in our online archives. The editorial board is the Subcommittee on Serial Publications of the Committee on Christian Education. Subscriptions: Copies of the annual printed edition of Ordained Servant are sent to each ordained minister of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, each organized congregation, and each designated mission work, and are paid for by the Committee. Ordained elders, deacons, and licentiates of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church may receive copies gratis upon request. Ordained Servant is also available to anyone in the U.S. and Canada who wishes to subscribe by remitting $10.00 per year to: Ordained Servant, The Orthodox Presbyterian Church, 607 N. Easton Rd., Bldg. E, Willow Grove, PA 19090-2539. Checks should be made out to the Orthodox Presbyterian Church, designated for Ordained Servant in the memo line. Institutional subscribers in the US and Canada please remit $15.00 per year. Overseas individual and institutional subscribers please remit $20.00 per year. All remittances should be made payable in U.S. funds. Subscriptions, both paid and gratis, may also be received through our website on the “Publications” page under “Resources” on the top right of the OPC.ORG home page. Submissions: Chosen submissions will be published on the web and possibly chosen for the annual print edition. Please consult “Submissions, Style Guide, and Citations” on our website. Copyright Information: All material in this periodical is subject to U.S. and international copyright laws and may not be reproduced without prior written approval. Please refer to “Submissions, Style Guide, and Citations” at our website once you have received permission. Interested parties are invited to obtain permission to reproduce mate- rial found in this publication by writing to the editor. © Copyright 2015 by the Committee on Christian Education of the Orthodox Presbyterian Church. All rights reserved. OrdainedServant A JOURNAL FOR CHURCH OFFICERS CONTENTS 5 From the Editor 53 “Nurturing Theologically Rich Women’s Initiatives in Your Church,” Aimee Byrd ServantThoughts EDITORIALS ServantWitness 6 “Beautiful Truth” 58 “Lord Defender: Jesus Christ as Apologist,” 7 “The Jeremiah 29 Option” Brian L. De Jong ServantWord ServantHistory 63 “A Righteousness apart from the Law That Is 9 “Expository Preaching: What Is It and Why Not against the Law: The Story and Message Should We Do It?” Dennis E. Johnson of The Marrow of Modern Divinity,” Andy Wilson ServantTruth 15 “The Doctrine of Divine Simplicity: A ServantHumor Pastor’s Appreciation,” D. Scott Meadows From the Back Pew 21 “Jonah’s Baptism,” Robert Mossotti 68 “Stooping and Lisping,” Eutychus II ServantChurch ServantReading 24 “The Path to Ecumenicity,” William BRIEFLY NOTED Boekestein 70 Inventing the Individual, by Larry Siedentop, 28 “L’chaim: An Invitation to the Blessedness of Richard M. Gamble Ecumenical Life,” William Shishko ServantReading ServantWork BOOK REVIEWS 32 “Youth Ministry?” T. David Gordon 71 Renaissance, by Os Guinness, William Edgar 38 “Is Church Membership Biblical?” Ryan M. 73 China’s Reforming Churches, edited by Bruce McGraw and Ryan Speck P. Baugus, Mitchell R. Herring 75 Biblical Interpretation and Doctrinal ServantEducation Formulation in the Reformed Tradition: Essays in Honor of James De Jong, edited by 48 “A Dozen Reasons Why Catechizing Is Arie C. Leder and Richard A. Muller, Martin Important,” Thomas E. Tyson Emmrich 77 Ordinary, by Michael Horton, Dale Van A. Felch Dyke 119 “True Theology,” review of A Treatise on True 79 On the Brink, by Clay Werner, Stephen Magee Theology, by Franciscus Junius, John V. Fesko 80 The Psalter Reclaimed, by Gordon Wenham, 122 “True Paradox,” review of True Paradox: How David A. Booth Christianity Makes Sense of Our Complex 81 Rediscovering Catechism, by Donald Van World, by David Skeel, William Edgar Dyken, Everett A. Henes 125 “New International Dictionary of New 83 Grounded in the Gospel, by J. I. Packer and Testament Theology and Exegesis,” review Gary Parrett, James J. Cassidy of New International Dictionary of New Testament Theology and Exegesis, edited by 84 Confessing the Faith, by Chad Van Dixhoorn, Moisés Silva, Stephen M. Baugh Robert Letham 128 “Calvin’s Company of Pastors,” review of 86 The Heart Is the Target, by Murray Capill, Calvin’s Company of Pastors, by Scott M. Shane Lems Manetsch, Glen J. Clary 87 From the Mouth of God, by Sinclair 132 “A Biblical Theology of Mystery,” review Ferguson, Stephen J. Tracey of Hidden but Now Revealed: A Biblical 88 Expository Preaching, by David Helm, T. Theology of Mystery, by G. K. Beale and David Gordon Benjamin L. Gladd, Sherif Gendy 90 Evangelical versus Liturgical? by Melanie C. 136 “Adam, the Fall, and Original Sin,” Ross, Matthew W. Kingsbury review of Adam, the Fall, and Original 92 The Digital Divide, edited by Mark Sin: Theological, Biblical, and Scientific Bauerlein, T. David Gordon Perspectives, edited by Hans Madueme and Michael Reeves, Sherif Gendy 94 How (Not) to Be Secular: Reading Charles Taylor, by James K. A. Smith, Susan M. Felch 140 “The Antidote to Juvenilization,” review of From Here to Maturity, by Thomas E. 95 Called to Be Saints, by Gordon T. Smith, Bergler, Gregory E. Reynolds David A. Booth 143 “Knowledge and Christian Belief,” review 96 Talking with Catholics about the Gospel, by of Knowledge and Christian Belief, by Alvin Chris Castaldo, Camden Bucey Plantinga, James D. Baird 98 Divine Covenants and Moral Order, by David 145 “The Song of Songs,” review of The Song of VanDrunen, Carl Trueman Songs, by Iain M. Duguid, Sherif Gendy 100 “A Clarification of the Review of Divine 148 “Do We Need a Better Country Now Covenants and Moral Order,” David More Than Ever?” review of The Age of VanDrunen Evangelicalism, by Steven P. Miller, Darryl 101 For the Glory of God, by Daniel I. Block, G. Hart David A. Booth 150 “Insightful Fool’s Talk,” review of Fool’s Talk, 103 The Crisis of British Protestantism, by Hunter by Os Guinness, Ted Turnau Powell, Ryan M. McGraw 154 “Interpreting the Prophets,” review of Interpreting the Prophets, by Aaron Chalmers, ServantReading Sherif Gendy REVIEW ARTICLES 157 “To Persuade or Not to Persuade,” review of Paul’s Theology of Preaching, by Duane 105 “Countercultural Spirituality,” review of Litfin, and Persuasive Preaching, by Larry R. Schaeffer on the Christian Life, by William Overstreet, Gregory E. Reynolds Edgar, Gregory E. Reynolds 165 “The Importance of Orality in Preaching,” 111 “Science as God’s Work: Abraham Kuyper’s review of Preaching by Ear, by Dave Perspective on Science,” review of Wisdom McClellan, Gregory E. Reynolds and Wonder, by Abraham Kuyper, Douglas From the Editor his is the tenth annual printed edition of Ordained Servant, as Twe enter our twenty-fifth year of publication. G. I. Williamson edited the journal from 1992 to 2005, producing 54 quarterly issues. I took the helm in 2006, and by the end of 2016, we will have pub- lishing 110 online issues. May the Lord be glorified by our imper- fect but earnest labors over the next twenty-five years. The cover photo is the steeple of Park Street Church in Boston. The website of that church (www.parkstreet.org) states: “We hereby covenant and engage … to give up ourselves unto the Lord … to unite together into one body for the public worship of God, and the mutual edification one of another in the fellowship of the Lord Jesus: exhorting, reproving, comforting and watching over each other, for mutual edification; looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of … our Savior JESUS” (from the Park Street Church Articles of Faith and Government, adopted on Feb. 23, 1809). With these words, twenty-six charter members covenanted together to form Park Street Church. In a time of increasing apostasy from the gospel and rising Unitarianism in New England, a small group of devoted Christians, primarily from Old South Church, formed a “Religious Improvement Society” in 1804 to hold weekly prayer meetings and lectures. Though they faced opposition from all sides, the group continued to meet for six years, founding Park Street Church in February of 1809. This small group acted in faith that God would use their efforts to accomplish no small task. And he did. By April of 1809, our location in the center of town was chosen to serve as a beacon of the hope we have in Christ. By 1810, the small congregation had grown and raised over $100,000 to complete the construction of our current meetinghouse. The first pastor of Park Street Church, staunch Calvinist Edward Dorr Griffin (1770–1837), served six years and preached a famous series of Sunday evening sermons warning of the errors of the New Divinity. The present pastor, Gordon P. Hugenberger (1997–present), continues to preach in the Reformed tradition. He was a student of Meredith G. Kline and preached at Kline’s funeral. It is my prayer that the pages of Ordained Servant will be used by our Lord to encourage, in- struct, and motivate ministers of the Word, elders, and deacons to serve tirelessly to build the church throughout our world, however slim our resources, by trusting the in the grace, power, and wisdom of the Lord of the harvest, who has promised to be with his church to the end of the age.
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