CHURCH PLANTING

Church Planting

Church Planting

In desiring to relate Paul's mission strategy and its efficacy for church planters, specifically in cross-cultural environments today, Hesselgrave successfully achieves his goal. That Paul had been specifically selected by Christ Himself to reach the Gentile nations and that Paul's chief goal in ministry was to preach the Gospel and establish churches makes him the prime biblical example for church planters to follow today. Thus, Hesselgrave's selection and dissection of the Pauline Cycle in church planting is noble and convincing. He successfully maintains this theme of the Pauline Cycle throughout his book by writing seven full chapters of ...