The Acts of the Apostles is an example of Practice Interpretation – making connections between the Gospel event and our own situation. Pentecost speaks to the situation of the speakers of minority languages, and of those who struggle for the establishing of justice, exemplified in the life of the church in South Africa under apartheid. Acts is the story of the continual inclusion of new groups of people, and of the problems which such inclusion brings. Pivotal events in Acts supply patterns for corporate decision-making. Practice Interpretation of Acts will remind the church that it is a movement before it is an organisation, and that creativity happens at the edge rather than the centre.
DaviesJohn, Be Born in Us Today (Canterbury Press, 1999).
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DaviesJohn, The Faith Abroad (Blackwell, 1983).
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VincentJohn (ed.), The Stilling of the Storm (Deo Publishing2011).
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VincentJohn (ed.), Acts in Practice (Deo Publishing2012).
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South African Council of Churches, A Message to the People of South Africa1968.
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Leslie Stradling, The Acts through Modern eyes (Mowbray1963), (Bishop Stradling wrote this little book from his experience as Bishop of SouthWest Tangankiya, before he came to us in South Africa as Bishop of Johnnesburg. In an apparently simple style, it is in fact a good example of Practice Interpretation).
