Footnotes

  1. Daniel R. Sanchez, Church Planting Movements in North America (Fort Worth, TX: Church Starting Network, 2007), 18.
  2. Allan Hirsch, The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2007), 45.
  3. David Olson, The American Church in Crisis: Groundbreaking Research Based on a National Database of over 200,000 Churches(Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan, 2008), 29-43. Also see Power Point
  4. David Olson, The American Church Research Project: The State of the American Church 2006.ppt (http://www.TheAmericanChurch.org), slide 25.
  5. William Tenny-Brittian, House Church Manual (St. Louis, MO: Chalice Press, 2004), 67-68.
  6. Larry Kreider and Floyd McClung, Starting a House Church (Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 2007), 107.
  7. Larry Kreider and Floyd McClung, Starting a House Church (Ventura, CA: Regal Books, 2007), 30.
  8. David Olson, The American Church Research Project: The State of the American Church 2006.ppt (http://www.TheAmericanChurch.org), slide 74.
  9. Rebecca Barnes and Lindy Lowry, “Special Report: The American Church in Crisis,” Outreach magazine, May/June 2006, 5.
  10. Pastoral Care, http://pastoralcareinc.com/WhyPastoralCare/Statistics.php (accessed August 10, 2010).
  11. Ken Burrill, Vice President of the Seventh-day Adventist Church in the Florida Conference, quoted in a seminar presentation, 2008.
  12. Monte Sahline, April 9, 2009 email correspondence.
  13. Adventist Review, October 9, 2008, 7.
  14. http://www.veotag.com/player/?u=aaequpqfkx&tid=2ee15c29-5c71-43dc-bf49-f8109d263539 (accessed June 21, 2009).
  15. George Barna, Revolution (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2005), 13, 64-65, 103. (Italic supplied)
  16. Ellen White, Great Controversy: Between Christ and Satan , 464.
  17. Ellen White, Gospel workers , 363
  18. Allan Hirsch, The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church (Grand Rapids, MI: Brazos Press, 2007), 19.
  19. Markus Barth and Helmut Blanke, The Letter to Philemon (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishing Co., 2000), 261. (Italics supplied).
  20. David B. Barrett, Todd M. Johnson, Christopher Guidry, and Peter Crossing, World Christian Trends, Ad 30-Ad 2200: Interpreting the Annual Christian Megacensus , AD 30 to AD 2200. (Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library, 2001), 520-529.
  21. Neil Cole, Church Planting Movements video.
  22. Simson, Wolfgang, Houses that Change the World (Emmelsbull, Germany: C&P Publishing, 1999. Barna, George; Dale, Tony & Felicity, The Rabbit and the Elephant: Why Small Is the New Big for Today's Church (Carol Stream, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, 2009).
  23. From Sabbath to Sunday : A Historical Investigation of the Rise of Sunday Observance in Early Christianity (Biblical Perspective, 2000).
  24. Tony & Felicity Dale, August 24, 2010 presentation in Melbourne. (Thanks to Ed Gallagher for sharing his notes.)
  25. Ellen White, Ministry of Healing, p. 147