Renewal and the Church Meeting (a survey)

Abstract

"A fairly persistent myth in Baptist circles links charismatic renewal with government by elders and the abandonment of the Church Meeting. During 1987, as a very minor part of a sabbatical project, I surveyed a small group of Baptist Churches involved in charismatic renewal to find what difference renewal had made to their Church Meetings. The results indicate that there are churches involved in charismatic renewal where, far from being abandoned, the Church Meeting is in fact experiencing a new lease of life"