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The Mission of Today's Church

Fall 2003, Vol. 1, No. 2

Table of Contents

Editorial	1
Articles
The Gospel of American Individualism Versus the Gospel of the Kingdom R. Alan Streett	5
Passion-Driven Shepherdology: A Biblical and Practical Reconciliation of Pastoral Preaching and Church Growth Jim Shaddix	19
A University Committed to the Great Commission Jonathan K. Parker, Daniel Skubik, and H. Bruce Stokes	47
Church Planting as a Growth Strategy in the Face of Church Decline Will McRaney	69
The Great Commission Imperative of Teaching: Why Christian Education Should Be On the Cutting Edge of the Church's Mission Today Walter H. Norvell	94
The State of Membership Growth, Sunday School, and Evangelism in the Southern Baptist Convention 1900-2002 William H. Day, Jr.	107
Today's Sunday School: Dead or Alive? Margaret F. Williamson	122
Rethinking the Call of God Bob L. Royall	139

Editor-in-Chief
Charles S. Kelley

Executive Editor
Steve W. Lemke

Editor
R. Stanton Norman

Book Reviews Editors
Robert Stewart
Charles Quarles

BCTM Fellow
Bart Box

The Journal for Baptist Theology and Ministry is published semiannually by the Baptist Center for Theology and Ministry, a ministry sponsored by the New Orleans Theological Seminary. Spring 2005, Vol.1, No. 2. Copyright ©2003.

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