Evaluating the Church Growth Movement (Biblia.com)

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What exactly is church growth? In what ways has the movement actually brought growth to the church, and how effective has it been in doing so? What are its strengths and weaknesses? This timely book addresses such questions. After providing a richly informative history and overview, it explores—in a first-ever roundtable of their leading voices—five main perspectives, both pro and con, on the...

Unintentionally, Church Growth practitioners developed a missionary model vulnerable to the spirit of their age. Assuming they could chart their way to success by their ingenuity and creativity, they focused on what humans do in missions rather than on what God is doing. Their beginning point was humanity rather than divinity. They saw the missional task as merely setting goals, developing appropriate methodologies, and evaluating what does or does not work rather than as seeking

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