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Michael J. Gehring
Adjunct Professor of Pastoral Theology
Expertise
- Practical Theology
- Evangelism
- C.S. Lewis Studies
- Wesley
and United Methodist Studies
Education
- Ph.D., University of Manchester (UK), 2014
- D.Min., Southern Methodist University, 2002
- Th.M., Duke University, 1992
- M.Div., Princeton Theological Seminary, 1988
Michael Gehring is Senior Pastor of Main Street United
Methodist Church in Kernersville, NC. A Senior Fellow of the Polycarp Community
(Perkins, SMU), he is also an Associate Fellow of the Manchester Wesley Centre
(Manchester, UK). In 2017, Cascade Press
(Wipf & Stock) published his book The
Oxbridge Evangelist: Motivations, Practices, and Legacy of C.S. Lewis. It was also published by Lutterworth
Press in Cambridge, England. His spiritual autobiography As the Broken White Lines Become One was published by Resource Publications (Wipf & Stock) in
2018. He coedited along with Andy Kinsey and Vaughn Baker The Logic of Evangelism Revisited (Pickwick Publications, Wipf & Stock, 2019) which examines
William J. Abraham’s seminal contribution to the field of evangelization
studies evaluating its continued relevance. His most recent work Losing
Church: The Decline, the Pandemic, and Social and Political Storms
(Resource, 2022) is a pastoral memoir reflecting on the challenges of leading a
church in the current age.