Gary Maske

Speaking Gifts in the Christian Assembly Gary Maske

From the introduction: "We need to talk. To one another. In the church. On Sunday morning. Not only on Sunday morning, but first and foremost on Sunday morning." Romans 12:3-8 indicates the speaking gifts-prophesying, teaching, exhorting, and ruling-are plentiful and to be used when the saints assemble as a church on the Lord's day. The book is in three parts. Part I is historical, pertaining to the church at the beginning of the age. Part II is polemical and refutes the clericalist tenets so predominant in church history. Part III: Ecclesiology, shows how NT teaching supports the I Corinthians 14 assembly model as the regular meeting of the church, over and against the "pulpit/pew" model. The author credits as his influences (in addition to the Word) George Müller and Henry Craik, Anthony Norris Groves, Edmund Hamer Broadbent, and G. H. Lang from among the Open Brethren, and Thomas Hughes Milner as well.