What Mcgavran’s Church Growth Thesis Means

0ne of the most provocative and stimulating attempts in recent years at appraising present-day missionary methods is that by Dr. Donald Anderson McGavran, former missionary to India and now dean of the new Fuller School of World Mission and Institute of Church Growth, Pasadena, Calif.

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What Mcgavran’s Church Growth Thesis Means

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