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    <title>How churches grow</title>
    <subTitle>the new frontiers of mission</subTitle>
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    <namePart>McGavran, D. A.</namePart>
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    <publisher>World Dominion</publisher>
    <dateIssued>1959</dateIssued>
    <issuance>monographic</issuance>
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  <tableOfContents>What this book is about: The blaze of opportunity -- The crucial issue in the world Mission -- Obstructions in the Protestant mind -- The structure of church growth
Population factors in church growth: How is the population composed? -- What does each population believe? -- How can the responsive be formed into Churches
General factors in Church Growth: Authentic spiritual fire -- What do the Scriptures say of Mission? -- Current philosophies of Mission -- Understanding church growth -- The "Cultural overhang" -- The tremendous pressure to "perfect"-- "Gradualism" -- The prison of previous patterns -- Permanent v. Pauline involvement
Methods of Church-growth: Methods which multiply churches -- The creation and support of leadership -- Checking methods against actual growth
Organization in Church-Growth: Expansion ahead of the Church -- Fatigue -- "The Same for all" -- Administration and church-growth</tableOfContents>
  <note type="statement of responsibility">Donald Anderson McGavran.</note>
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