Related Readings

• Malphurs, Aubury. (2004). What you don't know won't hurt you: The assumptions of church plantingIn Planting Growing Churches. (pp. 61-76). 3rd ed. Grand Rapids: Baker.

  Grigg, V. (2004). Biblical Theology for Poor People's Churches in Cry of the Urban Poor. (pp. 155-164). Authentic.

Learning Objectives

Candidates will internalize theological paradigm shifts as to (a) the Biblical foundations of the nature of the simple and confessing church,(b) the nature of organic growth, (c) principles of multiplication, (d) the centrality of the church in social change, (e) the priority of evangelism, (f) the nature of evangelism, (g) the diversity of church structures.