Missionary Methods (EMS 21)

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments

Contributors 

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

PART I – Biblical Understandings of Missionary Methods

1 Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s, St. Roland’s, or Ours? by Robert L. Gallagher

2 Roland Allen’s Understanding of the Spirit’s Centrality in Mission by Rob S. Hughes

3 Reassessing John Stott’s, David Hesselgrave’s, and Andreas K.stenberger’s Views of the Incarnational Model by 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 by 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? by David J. Hesselgrave

6 The Rise of Orality in Modern Missions Practice by Anthony Casey

7 Missionaries in Our Own Backyard: The Canadian Context by 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 by Robert H. Bennett

9 Leaders Reproducing Churches: Research from Japan by John W. Mehn

10 Paul’s or Theirs?—A Case Analysis of Missionary Methods among Muslims of the Philippines by Mark S. Williams

Conclusions: Missionary Methods: The Questions that Still Dog Us by Craig Ott

General Index

Scripture Index