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The Transforming Church (Contents)

This is a major series on the Cell-church and the Church Growth Movement, written by Tricia Tillin.
Click on each part to expand the contents and select the chapters.

It looks at the cell system, house groups and all other aspects
of the Church "in transition to a new apostolic paradigm."

  • PART ONE

    Introduction

    • New Church - New Leadership
    • Kingdom-Dominion
    • Remnant Longings

    Converting The World

    • Historical Background
    • Donald McGravan
    • Eschatological Errors
  • PART THREE

    The Problem with the Church Growth Movt.

    • Numerical Growth
    • Pragmatic Approach
    • Marketing Strategies
    • User-Friendly Services
    • Mass Conversions
    • The Homogenous Unit
    • Social Sciences
    • Social Reform
    • Reconstruction (New Wineskins)
  • PART FIVE

    Home Groups in General

    • The Early Church
    • Monastic and Pre-Reformation
    • Reformation Home Groups
    • Wesleyan Class Meetings
    • Watchman Nee

    Various Small Groups

    • Local Church House Groups
    • Roberta Hestenes
    • Seredipity
    • Xenos
    • Sonship/Deeper Life Groups
    • Witness Lee
    • T.Austin Sparks
    • Manifested Sons of God groups
    • Other Common-Interest groups
    • Cultic Small Groups - Branham, Cooneyite etc
  • PART SEVEN

    Cell Churches

    • Introduction to Cell Churches
    • The Meta-Church Model of Carl George
    • The Pure Cell Model of Ralph Neighbour
    • Critical Mass
    • Group Dynamics for an Altered Paradigm
  • PART NINE

    G12 (Groups of Twelve)

    • The Principle of 12 in Government
    • Concerns about G12
    • A Warning From History

    The Monastic Model

    Cell Church Leadership

    • The Jethro System
    • The G12 System
    • Discipling Errors
  • PART TWO

    An Altered Emphasis

    • Rufus Anserson
    • Gustav Warneck
    • J. Waskom Pickett
    • Emil Brunner
    • Juan Luis Segundo
    • Jurgen Moltmann
    • David Bosch

    The Apostles of the New Order

    • C. Peter Wagner
  • PART FOUR

    Other Early Influences and Personalities

    • Student Volunteer Movement
    • Norman Vincent Peale
    • Robert Schuller
    • Rod Trudinger
    • Howard Snyder
    • Juan Carlos Ortiz
    • David Yonggi Cho
    • Dale Galloway
  • PART SIX

    House Churches

    • Gene Edwards
    • Frank Viola
    • Wolfgang Simson
    • Apostolic/Prophetic groups
    • The City Church Concept

    The UK House Church Movement

    The "Open Church" of Jim Rutz

  • PART EIGHT

    The Purpose Driven Church

    • Willow Creek (Bill Hybels)
    • Saddleback (Rick Warren)

    MegaChurches

    • Faith Community Baptist Church, Singapore, (Lawrence Khong)
    • Bethany World Prayer Center (Larry Stockstill)
    • Yoidi Full Gospel Central Church in Korea (Yonggi Cho)
  • PART TEN

    Summarising The Dangers

    • A New Reformation
    • Pastors Despised
    • Bringing In The Kingdom
    • Unity is Demanded
    • Community rather than Individuals
    • Marketing The Church
    • Tracking and Monitoring

    Military Training and Revolution

    Conclusion

 

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