Garrison and Church Planting Movements

‘Garrison tells a story of a brother who led a CPM in China and was committed to a minimum of two hours daily in prayer. I don’t agree with everything in the CPM model–nor am I going to prescribe a certain amount of time gospel workers must spend in prayer each day. Nonetheless, it’s evident that the Lord loves to mightily answer the prayers of his people.’

‘There’s much that we can learn from Garrison’s book. Unfortunately, many of its key arguments are built on weak exegesis, eisegesis, and logical fallacies. I could boil down my main concern to a few simple questions: Is our goal biblical fidelity or speed?’

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(GSiV:

Miller: Success, Failure, and Grace;

Church Growth, Planning, and Multiplication;

Starting Churches: Making Disciples;

Analysis of T4T;

Phương pháp ‘Môn Đồ Hóa Dựa Trên Sự Vâng Phục’ là chủ nghĩa luật pháp phải không?; Rapid)

numbers can distract us

‘However, impressive numbers can distract us from the reality that the work needed to carry the gospel to the least reached peoples and places will take long, slow, patient work.’

‘Jesus is coming quickly and the need is urgent.  However, the motive of urgency by itself can become far too man-centered…The fuel for faithful and enduring gospel proclamation is not the urgent need of man but the exceeding worthiness and glory of God.’

‘For the missionary, success is not tied to speed or results but faithfulness to God and his Word.’

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(GSiV:

Miller: Success, Failure, and Grace;

Church Growth, Planning, and Multiplication;

Starting Churches: Making Disciples;

Analysis of T4T;

Phương pháp ‘Môn Đồ Hóa Dựa Trên Sự Vâng Phục’ là chủ nghĩa luật pháp phải không?; Rapid)

Idolatry, the immediate, and rapid church planting

‘The idolatrous desire for instant gratification exists in every ministry context, but it can acutely haunt church planters as we navigate the tension of an abundance of vision and a scarcity of resources.’

‘Impatience is the pride of thinking our timing is better than God’s.’

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(GSiV:

Expecting Rapid?;

Debate about methods of church planting and discipling;

Unreached People Groups and Overemphasis on Speed;

A Plea for Gospel Sanity in Missions;

Dangerous Desire for Church Growth;

Miller: Success, Failure, and Grace;

Church Growth, Planning, and Multiplication;

Starting Churches: Making Disciples;

Analysis of T4T;

Phương pháp ‘Môn Đồ Hóa Dựa Trên Sự Vâng Phục’ là chủ nghĩa luật pháp phải không?; Rapid)