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Volume 4, Issue 2 (2013) Donald McGavran

Special Issue Focusing on Donald McGavran

This issue has several articles focusing on the life and thought of Donald McGavran, generally considered the founder of the church growth movement.

Introduction

Introduction
Alan McMahan

Articles Focusing on Special Topics

The Rise and Decline of the Church Growth Movement
Elmer Towns

Donald McGavran’s Understanding of Conversion
Gustavo V. Suarez

Donald McGavran and the City
Jeff K. Walters

The Twenty-first Century Relevance of Donald McGavran
Gary McIntosh

Articles

Blow Ups or Grow Ups: Strategic Issues for Turnaround Churches
Kent R. Hunter

Finding Still Waters and Green Pastures: Understanding and Reducing Stress in Urban Church Planting
David R. Dunaetz

Hermeneutics and the Methods of Oral Bible Storytelling for the Evangelization and Discipleship of Oral Learners
Jennifer Jagerson

Converge International Missionaries and Their Churches in Thailand: Different Strategies Reaching Different People Groups in the Bangkapi District of Bangkok, Thailand
John F. Easterling

Book Reviews

Book Review: Cure for the Common Church: God’s Plan to Restore Church Health by Bob Whitesel
Joshua L. Henry

Book Review: Understanding World Christianity: The Vision and Work of Andrew F. Walls by William R. Burrows, Mark R. Gornik, and Janice A. McLean, eds.
Dwight P. Baker

Book Review: Wisdom from Lyle E. Schaller: The Elder Statesman of Church Leadership by Warren Bird, ed.
James R. Farrer

Book Review: Christian, Evangelical & . . . Democrat? by George G. Hunter III
Willam Ingram

Dissertations and Theses Notices
Gary McIntosh

About the Great Commission Research Network

About the Great Commission Research Network
Alan McMahan

Editors

General Editor: Alan McMahan
Editorial Board: Mike Morris; Gary McIntosh