the Church Growth school of missiology, I hope I have shown that it contains important elements of truth. The criticism of the “mission station” strategy has a great deal of force. It is also true that missions have, in McGavran’s phrase, tended to put perfecting before discipling and thereby fallen into the old legalist trap. They have become the proponents of a new law rather than of a liberating gospel. The church has been made to appear more like a school where examinations have to be passed