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dc.contributor.advisorWilliams, Dennis E.
dc.contributor.authorCathey, Malcolm Todd
dc.date.accessioned2010-01-08T18:18:06Z
dc.date.available2010-01-08T18:18:06Z
dc.date.created2008-12-12
dc.date.issued2008-12-12
dc.identifier.otherTHESES Ed.D. .C286m
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10392/487
dc.description.abstractThe biblical purpose of the church is the Great Commission as stated in Matthew 28:19-20. The mission of the church, or the way the purpose is carried out, is identified in Acts 2:42-47 as evangelism, discipleship, worship, ministry, prayer, and fellowship. Since the 1920s, southern Baptists have primarily utilized a program-driven model to accomplish the purpose and mission of the church. In recent years, however, the purpose-driven model, popularized by Rick Warren, has also become widely accepted. The purpose of this study was to categorize the church by program-driven or purpose-driven model and to analyze the self-reported mission effectiveness of each model in selected Southern Baptist churches. Data for this study, which assessed and compared mission effectiveness in relation to the program-driven and purpose-driven organizational structures. The study found that the purpose-driven churches were more effective in each of the six functions than were the program-driven churches. KEYWORDS: purpose-driven, program-driven, church health, ministry effectiveness, purposes of the church, church structure, church strategy, ecclesiologyen_US
dc.language.isoen_USen_US
dc.subjectChurch growthen_US
dc.subjectEvangelistic worken_US
dc.subjectChristian leadershipen_US
dc.titleThe mission effectiveness of program-driven and purpose-driven church models in selected Southern Baptist churchesen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
dc.publisher.institutionSouthern Baptist Theological Seminaryen_US


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