Missionary Methods (EMS 21)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments
Contributors
Introduction: Methodological Stewardship: Always Evaluating, Always Adjusting
J. D. Payne

PART I – Biblical Understandings of Missionary Methods
1 Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s, St. Roland’s, or Ours?
Robert L. Gallagher
2 Roland Allen’s Understanding of the Spirit’s Centrality in Mission
Rob S. Hughes
3 Reassessing John Stott’s, David Hesselgrave’s, and Andreas Köstenberger’s Views of the Incarnational Model
John Cheong

PART II – Praxis and Case Studies of Missionary Methods
4 From Roland Allen to Rick Warren: Sources of Inspiration Guiding North American Evangelical Missions Methodology 1912–2012
Gary R. Corwin
5 A Prolegomena to Contextualized Preaching Concerning the Wrath of God and the Judgment of Man: What Did Roland Allen Know that We Sometimes Forget and at Other Times Never Learn?
David J. Hesselgrave
6 The Rise of Orality in Modern Missions Practice
Anthony Casey
7 Missionaries in Our Own Backyard: The Canadian Context
Joel Thiessen
8 Islands of the Gods: Productive and Unproductive Missionary Methods in Animistic Societies—Roland Allen’s Examination of Saint Paul’s Use of Miracles
Robert H. Bennett
9 Leaders Reproducing Churches: Research from Japan
John W. Mehn
10 Paul’s or Theirs?—A Case Analysis of Missionary Methods among Muslims of the Philippines
Mark S. Williams

Conclusions: Missionary Methods: The Questions that Still Dog Us
Craig Ott
General Index
Scripture Index