A Critique of Modern Church-Growth Evangelism (4)

IV. The Nature of the Growth A final area in which the modem church growth movement is to be examined and critiqued is in the area of the nature of growth itself. As Guinness points out in his book, the term is capable of double meaning: qualitative growth, referring to spiritual depth and character; and quantitative growth, referring to size and numbers. The church needs both, he says, but while they may be distinguished, they ought not to be separated. One of the problems is that in the...