Planting Churches Among the City's Poor - Volume 2

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V. The Church Defined as Extension of the Pentecost Event, Mull, pp. 7-17

Everyone personally needs a church. This hurting and confused world needs the church. It needs more churches.

~ A Biblical Church Planting Manual . p. 12.

A. Forrest, the shoe shine man: “Boss Man, I’m a churchman!”, p. 10.

1. Part of a “churched generation” of African-Americans whose entire personal and social lives were rooted in the Church, p. 9-10. 2. Davis excursus: Church as community center and religious center : The Black church has been the center of African American life not merely its religious life. a. C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya, The Black Church in the African American Experience . Durham and London: Duke University Press, 1990. b. Hans Baer, The Black Spiritual Movement: A Religious Response to Racism . Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1984. c. Hans Baer and Merrill Singer. African-American Religion in the Twentieth Century: Varieties of Protest and Accommodation . Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1992.

B. How experience of church can shape view of church: the objectivity of the researcher , p. 11

1. View of church in terms of the experience of rural life .

2. View of church in terms of the experience of major changes in your life (whether positive or negative) , p. 11.

3. View of church in terms of the experience of dynamic spiritual vitality (positive experiences)