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    <title>Evaluating the church growth movement</title>
    <subTitle>5 views</subTitle>
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  <tableOfContents>Effective evangelism view : church growth effectively confronts and penetrates the culture / Elmer Towns -- Gospel and our culture view : church growth lacks a sufficient view of the church, which hinders it from effectively engaging the culture / Craig Van Gelder -- Centrist view : church growth is based on an evangelistically focused and missiologically applied theology / Charles Van Engen -- Reformist view : church growth assumes theology but ineffectively employs it to analyze culture, determine strategy, and perceive history / Gailyn Van Rheenan -- Renewal view : church growth must be based on a biblical vision of the church as the vital community of the kingdom of God / Howard Snyder -- Pastoral reflections.</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">[contributors] Elmer Towns ... [et al.] ; Gary L. McIntosh, general editor.</note>
  <note>Includes bibliographical references (p. 269-272) and index.</note>
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  <classification authority="ddc" edition="22">254/.5</classification>
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