Chaplaincy, teaching and abandonment

The Grass Roots Church: "During the course of this book, I shall use three terms to indicate what I believe are the functions of the Church. The traditional description of the Church's threefold ministry is summed up in the Greek words diakonia, koininia, and kerygma. Diakonia refers to the obligation of the Church to be a servant people, but we have made the deacons in our local congregations into what is, at best, an internal service organization. Koininia signifies the imperative that the Church be a community of love, but it implies nothing about the structure of this community. Kerygma refers to the central task of the Church, which is the proclamation or preaching of the Good News of the Gospel. However, the very notion of kerygma has been subverted by the Church's inability to provide a context in which genuine preaching is possible. There may be a time when we can revive these terms without doing offense to their meaning. But, for the moment, I propose to develop three alternative concepts to describe the functions of a renewed Church. They are chaplaincy, teaching, and abandonment."

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