Double-masters & double-doctorate church planter wizard Ed Stetzer shared some good insights on Biblical Missiology:
Balance Jude 3 & 1 Corinthians 9.22-23: Contend & Contextualize
Too many church planters plant in their heads and not in their communities!
Good theology leads to good missiology.
Church plants best break the cultural code.
1795-1810: largest church planting movement in American history led by the Baptists & Methodists in Tennessee, Kentucky, and Indiana. Thousands of churches planted. All the while the east coast Episcopals, Presbyterians, and Congregationalists were complaining and making fun of the Bap’s & Meth’s.
21st Century: the evangelicals are the east coast Christians making fun of the emerging, post-modern church planters...
Ecclesia semper reformanda: the church is always reforming
People aren’t ATTRACTED to other religions; they are REPELLED by ours!
Content without culture is irrelevancy.
Traditions are an obvious and frequent barrier, but technique is more dangerous.