Ministry for Wounded People: Interviews With Stephen Seamands
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This is a transcript of interviews conducted as part of the You’re Included series, sponsored by Grace Communion International. Our guest in the following interviews is Stephen Seamands, professor of Christian doctrine at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. He received his PhD from Drew University in 1983. He is the author of numerous books. In these interviews, he talks about From “What” to “So What?”, Ministry in the Image of God, and Wounds That Heal.
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Ministry for Wounded People - Stephen Seamands
Ministry for Wounded People
Interviews With Stephen Seamands
Copyright 2016 Grace Communion International
Published by Grace Communion International
Table of Contents
From What
to So What?
Ministry in the Image of God
Wounds That Heal
About the Publisher
Grace Communion Seminary
Ambassador College of Christian Ministry
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Introduction
This is a transcript of interviews conducted as part of the You’re Included series, sponsored by Grace Communion International. We have more than 130 interviews available. You may watch them or download video or audio at https://learn.gcs.edu/course/view.php?id=58. Donations in support of this ministry may be made at https://www.gci.org/online-giving/.
Grace Communion International is in broad agreement with the theology of the people we interview, but GCI does not endorse every detail of every interview. The opinions expressed are those of the interviewees. We thank them for their time and their willingness to participate.
Please understand that when people speak, thoughts are not always put into well-formed sentences, and sometimes thoughts are not completed. In the following transcripts, we have removed occasional words that did not seem to contribute any meaning to the sentence. In some cases we could not figure out what word was intended. We apologize for any transcription errors, and if you notice any, we welcome your assistance.
Our guest in the following interviews is Stephen Seamands, professor of Christian doctrine at Asbury Theological Seminary in Wilmore, Kentucky. He received his PhD from Drew University in 1983. He is the author of:
A Conversation with Jesus: Renewing Your Passion for Ministry
Give Them Christ: Preaching His Incarnation, Crucifixion, Resurrection, Ascension and Return
Holiness of Heart and Life
Ministry in the Image of God: The Trinitarian Shape of Christian Service
The Evangelical’s Guide to Spiritual Warfare: Scriptural Insights and Practical Instruction on Facing the Enemy(with Charles Kraft)
The Unseen Real: Life in the Light of the Ascension of Jesus
Wounds That Heal: Bringing Our Hurts to the Cross
The interviews were conducted by Michael Morrison, PhD, Professor of New Testament at Grace Communion Seminary.
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From What
to So What
Michael Morrison: Steve, you’ve been a pastor, and you describe yourself as a practical theologian.
To some people, that seems like a contradiction of terms. Theology doesn’t seem very practical. How do you see theology as practical for the church?
Stephen Seamands: Well, Mike, I don’t think I would be teaching this stuff if I didn’t think it was practical. Sometimes I say to my students the reason I love theology is because it is so practical.
That’s why theology arose in the church in the first place, not so that academicians and theoreticians could sit around discussing and fine-tuning ideas. It was out of the life of the church, protecting true doctrine from false doctrine. It was so that you could disciple people when they came to faith in Christ. You had to tell them about what they believed and what you believed as Christians. How do you evangelize without being able to talk to someone about the faith? Those are the kinds of things. It’s about nurturing. It’s about bringing people to faith. Those are the things that theology is about. So it’s really practical, and it’s supposed to undergird everything that we do in ministry.
MM: I noticed in your book, Give Them Christ, that