Review: CHURCH PLANTING MOVEMENTS by David Garrison

It's difficult to see why this isn't a textbook for LBTS. After all, it has nothing bad to say about Americam mega churches, and speaks approvingly of both Rick Warren and American structures overseas.

On closer reading, though, Garrison has so many good things to say about native missionaries, house churches, and indigenous Church Planting Movements that any compliments paid toAmerican churches seem backhanded. Maybe that's why it isn't a textbook.

The first half of the book provides an in-depth look at representative CPMs in Asia, Africa, and South America, before moving on to post-Christian Europe and  North America and telling about CPMs there. The second  half defines a CPM and tells readers how one might start in their own communities.

Throughout, the book is rooted in Scripture. Many of the modern movements are compared to the remarkable spread of the Church in the book of Acts.