Planning Strategies for World Evangelization

by Dayton, Edward R.

• ISBN13: 9780802804228
• ISBN10: 0802804225
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1990-08-01
• Publisher: EERDMANS

Author Biography

Edward R. Dayton is vice president at large of World Vision International, Monrovia, California. A former aerospace executive, he has written widely on missions, management, theology, and sociology, and a number of his books have been translated into Chinese, Japanese, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. David A. Fraser is associate professor of sociology at Eastern College, St. Davids, Pennsylvania.

Table of Contents

Preface	p. xiii
Introduction	p. 1
Beginnings	p. 3
What Do We Mean by a People or People Group?	p. 6
A Comprehensive Approach Is Needed	p. 7
Perspective	p. 9
The Future Lies in the Future	p. 10
A Theology of the Future	p. 11
The Importance of the Future	p. 12
Strategy	p. 13
Why Have a Strategy?	p. 14
Types of Strategies	p. 14
Is Our Strategy "Western"?	p. 16
What Happens When We Have No Strategy?	p. 17
Management	p. 18
What Do We Mean by Management?	p. 19
Nehemiah Was a Manager	p. 20
The Role of the Holy Spirit	p. 21
Recapturing the Biblical Balance	p. 24
Management for Mission	p. 25
An Overview of the Task	p. 25
The Basic Approach	p. 31
A Circular Model	p. 31
Defining the Mission	p. 39
Considerations	p. 41
Mission and Evangelization	p. 42
Mission and the Church	p. 43
Evangelization	p. 46
The Meaning of Evangelism	p. 49
Defining Evangelism When Developing a Strategy	p. 52
Evangelization as a Process	p. 55
Defining Your Mission	p. 57
Assumptions for Mission Definition	p. 58
The Need for Mission Definition	p. 60
Field Selection Practices	p. 61
Theology and Field Selection	p. 64
Field Selection Criteria	p. 69
Unreached People Defined	p. 72
Perspective	p. 74
Questions	p. 75
The People to be Reached	p. 77
Considerations	p. 79
A People-Centered Approach	p. 81
The Importance of a People-Centered Approach	p. 82
Peoples and People Groups in the Bible	p. 85
Evangelism and Peoples of the New Testament World	p. 89
Paul's People-Centered Approach	p. 93
Defining and Describing Peoples and People Groups	p. 97
The Debate about Mono-Ethnic Churches	p. 97
The Homogeneous Unit and People Group Evangelization	p. 99
Membership in Groups	p. 101
What Are Peoples and People Groups?	p. 102
Understanding Peoples and People Groups	p. 105
Three-Dimensional Understanding	p. 105
The Meaning System of Peoples and People Groups	p. 107
Understanding the Needs of Peoples and People Groups	p. 116
Understanding the Behavior of Peoples and People Groups	p. 123
Receptivity and Resistance	p. 129
Questions	p. 131
The Force for Evangelization	p. 133
Considerations	p. 135
The People Available	p. 136
What Is This People Group Like?	p. 137
Looking for the Best Fit	p. 141
The Going Community	p. 143
Recruiting	p. 145
Thousands of Young People Are Willing to Be Trained	p. 148
The Challenge of Training	p. 155
The Local Church Can Change the World	p. 155
The Organizations Available	p. 158
Organizational Structures	p. 160
Priorities for the Christian Organization	p. 163
An Organizational Checklist	p. 164
Missions in Partnership	p. 166
Questions	p. 169
Means and Methods	p. 171
Considerations	p. 173
Selecting Means and Methods	p. 174
Methods and the Holy Spirit	p. 175
What Difference Do Methods Make?	p. 176
What Are Means and Methods?	p. 181
Classifying Methods	p. 185
Selecting Methods for Evangelization	p. 190
Perspective on the Selection Process	p. 193
Developing Means and Methods	p. 194
New Testament Examples	p. 195
The Experiences of Other Christians	p. 197
The Experience of Pseudo-Christian and Other Religious Movements	p. 199
The Means and Methods of the People Group Being Evangelized	p. 201
Development as Evangelism	p. 203
Final Considerations	p. 204
Questions	p. 206
Defining an Approach	p. 207
Considerations	p. 209
Planning the Strategy	p. 210
Levels of Strategy	p. 211
The Example of the Turkana	p. 214
The Diffusion of Innovation	p. 216
Stating Our Approach	p. 218
Assumptions	p. 220
Assumptions about Yourself	p. 222
Assumptions about the Organization	p. 223
Assumptions about Other Churches and Missions	p. 224
Assumptions about the Country in Which You Work	p. 224
Assumptions about the World	p. 225
What Now?	p. 225
Questions	p. 227
Anticipated Outcomes	p. 229
Considerations	p. 231
Movement Toward Christ	p. 232
The Meaning of Conversion	p. 233
The Starting Point	p. 235
The Ultimate Objective	p. 238
The Resulting Church	p. 241
The Church in the Freedom of the Spirit	p. 242
Models for the Resulting Church	p. 243
Criteria for the Resulting Church	p. 250
Ready for Results	p. 252
Four Types of Possible Outcomes	p. 254
Ways We Hide from Results	p. 257
Changes and the Strategy Cycle	p. 258
Failing on Paper	p. 259
Questions	p. 260
Your Role	p. 261
Considerations	p. 263
Who Are You?	p. 264
Roles and Social Structures	p. 265
Personal Role Definition	p. 270
Our Primary Role Identification	p. 272
Where Do You Fit?	p. 274
Questions to Ask	p. 275
Bringing About Change	p. 278
Questions	p. 282
Planning	p. 283
Considerations	p. 285
Goals for Evangelization	p. 286
The Difference between Purposes and Goals	p. 286
The Relationship of Goals to One Another	p. 288
The Power and Advantages of Goals	p. 289
Writing Clear Goals and Purposes	p. 290
Goals for People	p. 291
Plans for Evangelization	p. 293
What Do We Mean by Planning?	p. 293
Thinking Christianly about Planning	p. 294
Basic Planning Concepts	p. 295
The Dynamics of Planning	p. 299
Short-and Long-Range Planning	p. 302
Methods for Planning	p. 303
Questions	p. 304
Act	p. 305
Considerations	p. 307
Taking Action	p. 308
Resources, Means, Goals	p. 309
Course Correction--Replanning	p. 314
Questions	p. 315
Evaluation	p. 317
Considerations	p. 319
Evaluation	p. 320
Set up an Evaluation Procedure	p. 321
Goals Evaluation	p. 321
Evaluating Means and Methods	p. 322
Evaluating Resources	p. 323
Evaluation as a Process	p. 324
Personal Performance Evaluation	p. 325
Closing the Circle	p. 326
Questions	p. 327
Bibliography	p. 328
Index	p. 347
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