This book is a compendium of the papers presented at the 2002 EMS/IFMA annual conference. The theme of the conference was “Encountering World Religions.”

According to the constitution of Malaysia, a Malay is a Muslim. Yet Hilmy Nor is a Malay Christian.

When this book crossed my desk, my first notion was to regard the title as an oxymoron. But that description would do the compilers an injustice.

I wish this book had been written several years ago. Zondervan published this work as part of the Counterpoints Series on the fiftieth anniversary of the contemporary Church Growth Movement.

Roger Gehring comes to the rescue of those in search of more than popular accounts of the rise of house churches.