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…
Zane Pratt has served as an IMB church planter in Central Asia, associate professor of missions at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, and the IMB vice president for global training. In this article from Global Missiology, he argues against the common CPM idea that the foundation of discipleship is obedience. Pratt writes, "[O]bedience is not the basis…
In this article from the October 2014 issue of Global Missiology, Jackson Wu (PhD, SEBTS) challenges the common CPM idea that church planting movements are found in the Bible. Wu looks at various definitions of church planting movements and argues that such are not found in the Bible. He adds that attempts by CPM proponents to see…
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…