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Understanding Your Critics: An Outsider’S Analysis Of A Core Criticism Of The Church Growth Movement, Duane Litfin
Understanding Your Critics: An Outsider’S Analysis Of A Core Criticism Of The Church Growth Movement, Duane Litfin
Journal of the American Society for Church Growth
A call to proclamation evangelism rather than persuasion evangelism.
A Response To Dr. Litfin, Carl George
A Response To Dr. Litfin, Carl George
Journal of the American Society for Church Growth
A response to Duane Litfin's (1995) "Understanding Your Critics: An Outsider’s Analysis of a Core Criticism of the Church Growth Movement" (in this issue).
Core Values: Backbone Of A Movement, Kent R. Hunter
Core Values: Backbone Of A Movement, Kent R. Hunter
Journal of the American Society for Church Growth
In the last 10 to 20 years, the Church Growth Movement has proliferated in at least three dimensions. First, the Movement has proliferated by topics. In the last decade or so, we have seen church growth leaders concentrate on mega-churches, metachurches, philosophy of ministry, understanding secular people, mission statements, the age wave, builders, boomers, busters, lifestyle evangelism, vision, change, small groups, Sunday Schools, breaking barriers, etc. In a second dimension, there has been proliferation in other ways. Not only was there the founding of the American Society for Church Growth, but there Church Growth Associations in other countries. In a …
40 Years Of Church Growth: A View From The Theological Tower, Walter Russell Iii
40 Years Of Church Growth: A View From The Theological Tower, Walter Russell Iii
Journal of the American Society for Church Growth
I present these evaluative thoughts about the first forty years of the Church Growth Movement, and especially the first twenty-five years of the movement in North America (1970- 1995), with the humility appropriate to one person’s perspective on so vast and diverse a phenomenon as that of the Church Growth Movement.
Introduction: Church Growth At The End Of The Twentieth Century, Gary L. Mcintosh
Introduction: Church Growth At The End Of The Twentieth Century, Gary L. Mcintosh
Journal of the American Society for Church Growth
Five Perceptions of the Church Growth Movement
A Response To Dr. Russell, Jerold F. Reed
A Response To Dr. Russell, Jerold F. Reed
Journal of the American Society for Church Growth
A response to Russell's (1995) article "40 Years of Church Growth: A View from the Theological Tower."
A Response To Dr. Rainer: What Is The Key To Effective Evangelism?, Charles Arn
A Response To Dr. Rainer: What Is The Key To Effective Evangelism?, Charles Arn
Journal of the American Society for Church Growth
A Response to Ranier's (1995) "Church Growth at the End of the Twentieth Century: Recovering Our Purpose" (in this issue).
A Response To Dr. Russell, Geroge C. Hunter Iii
A Response To Dr. Russell, Geroge C. Hunter Iii
Journal of the American Society for Church Growth
A response to Russell's (1995) article "40 Years of Church Growth: A View from the Theological Tower."
A Response To Dr. Litfin, Charles Van Engen
A Response To Dr. Litfin, Charles Van Engen
Journal of the American Society for Church Growth
A response to Duane Litfin's (1995) "Understanding Your Critics: An Outsider’s Analysis of a Core Criticism of the Church Growth Movement" (in this issue).
Church Growth At The End Of The Twentieth Century: Recovering Our Purpose, Thom S. Ranier
Church Growth At The End Of The Twentieth Century: Recovering Our Purpose, Thom S. Ranier
Journal of the American Society for Church Growth
The thesis of this paper is that a critical element is missing in much of church growth literature and practice today. Furthermore the viability of the movement and the health of churches across our land may very well depend upon our recovery of that missing element. The mysterious missing element is, simply stated, evangelism.
A Response To Dr. Rainer, Larry Gilbert
A Response To Dr. Rainer, Larry Gilbert
Journal of the American Society for Church Growth
A Response to Ranier's (1995) "Church Growth at the End of the Twentieth Century: Recovering Our Purpose" (in this issue).
Church Growth-- “Quo Wadis - Whither Goest Thou”, Elmer L. Towns
Church Growth-- “Quo Wadis - Whither Goest Thou”, Elmer L. Towns
Journal of the American Society for Church Growth
The philosophy and the strategy of the Church Growth Movement are focused on the homogeneous unit principle, people movements, receptivity, and the use of the social sciences to establish principles and methods.