Paul’s Missionary Methods

by Robert L. Plummer; John Mark Terry

Publisher:

IVP USA

, 2012

Overview

What does Paul’s missions strategy mean for today?

A century ago Roland Allen published Missionary Methods: Saint Paul’s or Ours?, a missiological classic which tackled many important issues, including what biblically rooted missions looks like in light of the apostle Paul’s evangelistic efforts. Although Allen’s work is still valuable, new understandings have been gained regarding Paul’s milieu and missionary activity, and how his practices ought to inform missions in our ever-changing world.

Using the centennial anniversary of Allen’s work as a springboard for celebration and reflection, the contributors to Paul’s Missionary Methods have revisited Paul’s first-century missionary methods and their applicability today. This book examines Paul’s missionary efforts in two parts. First Paul is examined in his first-century context: what was his environment, missions strategy and teaching on particular issues? The second part addresses the implications of Paul’s example for missions today: is Paul’s model still relevant, and if so, what would it look like in modern contexts?

Experts in New Testament studies and missiology contribute fresh, key insights from their fields, analyzing Paul’s missionary methods in his time and pointing the way forward in ours.

Key Features

• Revisits Paul’s first-century missionary methods and their applicability today
• Examines Paul in his first-century context: environment, missions strategy and teaching
• Addresses the implications of Paul’s example for missions today

Contents

Part I: Paul in the New Testament

• Paul’s Religious and Historical Milieu - Michael F. Bird
• Paul the Missionary - Eckhard J. Schnabel
• Paul’s Gospel - Robert L. Plummer
• Paul’s Ecclesiology - Benjamin L. Merkle
• Paul’s Mission as the Mission of the Church - Christoph W. Stenschke
• Paul’s Theology of Suffering - Don N. Howell Jr.
• Paul and Spiritual Warfare - Craig Keener

Part II: Paul’s Influence on Missions

• Paul’s Missions Strategy - David J. Hesselgrave
• Paul’s Strategy: Determinative for Today? - Michael Pocock
• Paul and Indigenous Missions - John Mark Terry
• Paul and Church Planting - Ed Stetzer with Lizette Beard
• Paul and Contextualization - M. David Sills
• Paul and Leadership Development - Chuck Lawless

Postscript

• Roland Allen’s Missionary Methods at One Hundred - J. D. Payne

Praise for Paul’s Missionary Methods

This book stands tall in the forest of studies on Paul’s missionary methods. Utilizing the significant contributions of widely respected missiologists, the editors have managed to focus on timeless issues while providing thought-provoking application for today. This will be a must-read for the thoughtful missionary and serious student alike.

—Tom Elliff, president, International Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention

Plummer and Terry clothe the skeleton of the broad subject of missions with deep insights, encouragement and reminders within the framework of a healthy review of contributors from relevant mission experience and history. Any mission student, missionary, pastor, missions committee member or short-termer will gain by reading this biblically centered book with insight from some of the best mission minds of the centuries.

—Bob Stevens, former Southeastern Regional Director, U. S. Center for World Missions, and instructor, Perspectives on the World Christian Movement

The editors of this book have combined biblical and missiological scholarship that further enhances the relevance of Roland Allen’s piece Missionary Methods: St. Paul’s or Ours?, while also moving us beyond it to the challenges of a new century. Perhaps the most salient insight rendered is the reminder that each generation should avoid simple replication of the methods Allen assessed but should resubmit to the call to ascertain whether or how our missionary actions reflect biblical patterns and then take corrective measures where needed. Correction entails constructive self-study, which is always an emotive challenge. Missionaries, globally engaged pastors, students and mission administrators should read this, mark it up, think through its implications, and do the hard work of analysis for our time.

—Dr. Keith Eitel, dean of the Fish School of Evangelism and Missions at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, Fort Worth, Texas

Product Details

• Title: Paul’s Missionary Methods: In His Time and Ours
• Authors: Robert L. Plummer, John Mark Terry
• Publisher: IVP USA
• Print Publication Date: 2012
• Pages: 253
• Language: English
• Resources: 1
• Format: Digital › Ebook
• ISBNs: 9780830857074, 0830857079
• Resource ID: LLS:9780830859894
• Resource Type: Monograph
• Metadata Last Updated: 2024-10-15T02:20:30Z