Journal of Evangelism and Missions

Church Planting Movements

Volume 6

Spring 2007

Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary

Published annually by Mid-America Baptist Theological Seminary, Germantown, Tennessee, and Schenectady, New York, Michael R. Spradlin, President.

Journal Committee

Michael R. Spradlin, Editor in Chief

Steve Wilkes, Editor

John Floyd, Associate Editor

Stan May, Associate Editor

Jere Phillips, Book Review Editor

Mike Haggard, Copy Editor

Betty Bailey, Design

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Table of Contents

Letter from the Editor by Steve Wilkes

An Examination of Nine Key Issues Concerning CPM by Jeff Brawner

People Movements vs. Church Planting Movements by Mark Byrd

Church Planting Movements: Rationale, Research and Realities of their Existence by Jim Slack

Is Church Planting Movement Methodology Viable? by Hoyt Lovelace

The Left Side of the Graph by Clyde Meador

Evangelizing the Emerging Culture by Barry Baker

Cult Evangelism Today by Robert Bowman Jr.

A Biblical Missiology for North American People Groups by Phillip Connor

The Subtle Danger of Feel Good Preaching by Junior Hill

Report Hour by Stan May

Book Reviews

From the Editor

Missiological Misgivings?

by Steve Wilkes

This important issue of the Journal of Evangelism and Missions tackles the very popular missions idea of Church Planting Movements.

CPM thinking was introduced in the late 1990s by the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. The author of the first booklet concerning CPM was David Garrison, a leader at the IMB who has unique academic credentials; he did his Ph.D. in history under Martin Marty at the University of Chicago. Today Garrison is a regional leader with the IMB, and his brainchild known as CPM has widely influenced ...