This past week at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, I gave a lecture titled “Roland Allen: The Man, His Missiology, and Missions Today.” In a blog post, it is impossible to discuss the depth of Allen’s missiology. Therefore, what you are getting here is the Cliff’s Notes verison of the Cliff’s Notes. […]
Yearly Archives: 2010
Today, I begin a two-part series on the blog about one of my greatest missiological influences, Roland Allen (1868-1947). While Allen is best known for his books Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s or Ours (1912) and The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church and the Causes which Hinder It (1927), he has been tremendously influential […]
Roland Allen: Part 1, The Man
If you have not had a chance to obtain a copy of Alvin Reid’s book Evangelism Handbook: Biblical, Spiritual, Intentional, Missional, just published by B&H a few months ago, you need to get a copy of it! For several years, I required one of his previous books, Introduction to Evangelism, […]
Evangelism Handbook with Alvin Reid
Okay. I realize this post is a little longer than what I normally do, but it is critical issue #1. Let’s quickly review: Critical Issue #5 Stress on the Family Critical Issue #4 The Challenge of Contextualization Critical Issue #3 Turfish and Apathetic Churches Critical Issue #2 Need for Leaders And Critical […]
Critical Issues in North American Church Planting: #1 Money
And now critical issue #2–the need for leaders to assist in the work. Of the 190 participants surveyed, leadership development came in as the second most critical issue in North American church planting circles. Church planters are finding out that it is very difficult to locate solid leaders who are […]
Critical Issues in North American Church Planting: #2 Need for ...
Continuing to countdown the five most critical issues in North American church planting (see HERE and HERE if you have not caught the other posts in this series), we now come to #3. Church planters in the study noted that Critical Issue #3 involved the reality of turfish and/or apathetic […]
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