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Planting Churches Cross-Culturally: North America and Beyond is unavailable, but you can change that!

Ministry training often emphasizes expanding on the work of existing ministries neglecting to address the difficulties of planting new churches. Incorporating relevant sociological, anthropological, and historical insights, Hesselgrave extrapolates ten phases of cross-cultural church planting. This second edition of a well-used text draws on more recent literature, offers refined arguments, and...

of the church in order to undertake every conceivable type of good work from feeding the hungry to immunizing populations against disease to introducing new strains of corn and cattle. These are worthy endeavors and according to Galatians 6:10 qualify as Christian undertakings. But organizations formed to accomplish them do not really qualify as missions unless upon entering needy areas they keep the church’s primary mission primary. Wherever it is possible to proclaim the gospel and form churches,
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