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Church Growth and the Word of God
Outline: In this addition to the expanding Church Growth Series, Alan Tippett spells out the biblical basis for the concept of church growth held by Dr. McGavran and his colleagues at the School of World Mission and the Institute of Church Growth at Fuller Seminary in Pasadena. The author draws from the promises of God given to Israel in the Old Testament and the messages given to the Church in the New Testament. These messages, warnings, and instructions to the Church were set in such passages as the Great Commission, the statement of the apostolic principle transmitted by Christ on a basis of his own apostleship to the world, the direct claim of Christ that he alone is the way to the Father, and the restatement of the apostolic responsibility to witness and incorporate converts into the fellowship. It is on the basis of these passages, and others, that the author states the church growth theory.
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