Biblical Principles of Church Planting
Liberty Theological Seminary
Biblical Principles of Church Planting
A Paper
Submitted to Dr. Homer Massey
In Partial Fulfillment
Of the Requirements for the Course
Contemporary Evangelism
EVAN 550
By
Sandra Smith
9 March 2012
Bibliographical Entry
Hesselgrave, David J., Planting Churches Cross-Culturally: North America and Beyond, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Publishing Group, 2000.
Author Information Dr. David J. Hesselgrave is retired as professor of mission and director of the School of World Mission at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is a past president of the Evangelical Missiological Society and is author of Theology and Mission and Dynamic Religious Movements. (Backcover) From the University of Minnesota, he earned his Doctor of Philosophy in rhetoric and public address with an emphasis in cross-cultural communication. [1] He also has a Master of Arts in speech and the Bachelor of Arts in philosophy as well as his diploma from Trinity Theological Seminary. [2] He has numerous articles, books and multimedia presentations.[3] Just to name a few, His books include Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally (Zondervan 1978); Contextualization-Meanings, Methods, and Models (with Edwards Rommen, Baker 1989). [4] Content Summary
It is clear that Dr. Hesselgrave main objective was to demonstrate Apostle Paul’s exemplary church-planting cycle (pg. 47) which is a ten-step process that began and ended with the commissioning of missionaries (pg. 50) Dr. Hesselgrave wants the reader to understand that in order to be have an influential missionizing and evangelizing, the key is to make conscientious decisions along with being prayerful in your plans and strategies. (pg. 50) Paul tells us that we are not to move forward with any type of plan until we have sought guidance from the Holy Spirit (pg. 44) in order to plant churches is three generalized areas:
Biblical Principles of Church Planting
A Paper
Submitted to Dr. Homer Massey
In Partial Fulfillment
Of the Requirements for the Course
Contemporary Evangelism
EVAN 550
By
Sandra Smith
9 March 2012
Bibliographical Entry
Hesselgrave, David J., Planting Churches Cross-Culturally: North America and Beyond, Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Publishing Group, 2000.
Author Information Dr. David J. Hesselgrave is retired as professor of mission and director of the School of World Mission at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He is a past president of the Evangelical Missiological Society and is author of Theology and Mission and Dynamic Religious Movements. (Backcover) From the University of Minnesota, he earned his Doctor of Philosophy in rhetoric and public address with an emphasis in cross-cultural communication. [1] He also has a Master of Arts in speech and the Bachelor of Arts in philosophy as well as his diploma from Trinity Theological Seminary. [2] He has numerous articles, books and multimedia presentations.[3] Just to name a few, His books include Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally (Zondervan 1978); Contextualization-Meanings, Methods, and Models (with Edwards Rommen, Baker 1989). [4] Content Summary
It is clear that Dr. Hesselgrave main objective was to demonstrate Apostle Paul’s exemplary church-planting cycle (pg. 47) which is a ten-step process that began and ended with the commissioning of missionaries (pg. 50) Dr. Hesselgrave wants the reader to understand that in order to be have an influential missionizing and evangelizing, the key is to make conscientious decisions along with being prayerful in your plans and strategies. (pg. 50) Paul tells us that we are not to move forward with any type of plan until we have sought guidance from the Holy Spirit (pg. 44) in order to plant churches is three generalized areas: