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Church Growth Movement
The Church Growth Movement is a current within evangelical missiology that sought to study the causes of church growth through surveys, statistics, and sociology and to apply the findings to evangelism and mission. It originated in the 1950s with the missionary Donald McGavran and is also known as church growth studies.
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- History of Protestantism in KoreaHistory
The history of Protestantism in Korea extends from the arrival of American missionaries in 1884–1885 to the present day. It encompasses the arrival of missionaries, revival movements and church organization, persecution and the Shinto shrine worship controversy under Japanese rule, and denominational divisions and growth after liberation.
- Church Growth in KoreaHistory
The rapid increase in the number of Protestant church members and churches in South Korea during the industrialization and urbanization of the 1960s through the 1980s. The term also covers the slowdown and stagnation of that growth from the 1990s onward.
- Donald McGavranPeople
Donald Anderson McGavran (1897–1990) was an American missionary to India and a missiologist. He is known as the founder of church growth studies and served as the founding dean of the School of World Mission at Fuller Theological Seminary.
- C. Peter WagnerPeople
C. Peter Wagner (1930–2016) was an American missionary and missiologist. He taught church growth at Fuller Theological Seminary and later championed the New Apostolic Reformation, which brought him into controversy with a number of denominations.
- 1 Corinthians 3:6–7Bible Verses
In this passage Paul addresses the factions in the Corinthian church, saying that he planted and Apollos watered, but God gave the increase. It is frequently cited as a warning against exalting ministers and as grounds for locating the source of church growth in God.
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