Bhojpuri Breakthrough: A Movement that Keeps Multiplying (WIGTake, 2019) is a case study of a movement (or movements, plural) in northern India. You can gain insight into the characteristics and methods of this movement as well as the Indian culture (or cultures) in this region. I personally learned more about the caste system, railway children, and differences…
Jackson Wu, a critic of church planting movements, writes an overwhelmingly positive review of Matt Rhodes' critical CPM book No Shortcut to Success: A Manifesto for Modern Missions (Crossway, 2022). Wu calls it "a long-needed corrective to several decades of missions literature" (para. 9). The review appears in the April 2022 issue of Global Missiology. Read the…
Caleb Morell, currently the Senior Pastoral Assistant for Research at Capitol Hill Baptist Church in Washington, D.C., reviewed Steve Addison's 2019 book, The Rise and Fall of Movements: A Roadmap for Leaders (100Movements Publishing). Morell takes issue with several DMM elements featured in Addison's book, including obedience-based discipleship, definition of church (or lack thereof), and Discovery Bible…
Caleb Morell critiques Jerry Trousdale and Glenn Sunshine's popular DMM book, The Kingdom Unleashed.[1] One of his main criticisms is that the authors redefine the historical Protestant definition of a church. Read it here. [1] Jerry Trousdale and Glenn Sunshine, The Kingdom Unleashed: How Jesus’ 1st Century Kingdom Values Are Transforming Thousands of Cultures and Awakening His…
Darren Carlson reviews Miraculous Movements: How Hundreds of Thousands of Muslims Are Falling in Love with Jesus (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2012). Carlson says that the crux of the issue is Trousdale's hermeneutics. In addition to that, Carlson lists four theological concerns which include obedience-based discipleship, the definition of church, "where is the Bible?" and "where is the…
Ed Roberts, a church planter in Central Asia, wrote a review of Contagious Disciple Making: Leading Others on a Journey to Discovery (Thomas Nelson, 2015). He says the book is "big numbers, small substance" and that he would only recommend it to others with "significant reservations." He does, however, point out several positives from the book, including…
Jeff Morton (DMiss, Biola) reviews Jerry Trousdale's Miraculous Movements: How Hundreds of Thousands of Muslims Are Falling in Love with Jesus (Nashville: Thomas Nelson, 2012). Morton quotes Trousdale saying that the book's principles are outlined and commanded in the Bible. Morton then traverses a list of principles found in the book and essentially asks, "Where is this…
George Robinson (DMiss, Western Seminary) reviews T4T: A Discipleship Re-Revolution in the October 2011 issue of Global Missiology. While favorable to movements, Robinson expresses concerns with issues of rapidity, ecclesiology, definition of church, and heresy. This review contains both positive and negative aspects of the book, and Robinson concludes that he would recommend the book with certain…
Ed Roberts, a church planter in Central Asia for over twenty years, critiques David Garrison's book Church Planting Movements: How God is Redeeming a Lost World (2004, WIGTake). The critique includes issues of rapidity, pragmatism, and ecclesiology. The book review was written on July 25, 2009. Read it here.
Greg Gilbert is the senior pastor at Third Avenue Baptist Church in Louisville, KY. This review of Garrison's book is one of the first critical resources written about church planting movements. Other resources have linked Gilbert's review to the 9Marks website, but for whatever reason, it is no longer on the 9Marks site. In terms of content,…