Bennett, Clinton
Clinton Bennett is Associate Professor of Ministry and Living Traditions at the Unification Theological Seminary. An ordained Baptist minister, he has served as a missionary in Bangladesh, as a university chaplain, as associate pastor of a multi-racial congregation, on the executive staff of the British Council of Churches, and in academic appointments at Westminster College, Oxford and Baylor University, Texas. He was a consultant to the World Council of Churches and is a member of the UPF Global Council and an Ambassador for Peace. He has assisted mosques with funding, planning and charity registration, building bridges in his chosen specialization, Christian-Muslim relations. Author of numerous articles and of six books, he received his PhD in 1990 from Birmingham University, UK.
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Problems and Possibilities of Church Growth: Towards a Unification Critique
Journal of Unification Studies Vol. 8, 2007 – Pages 25-40 Since the beginning of the Church Growth movement in the mid-1950s, many successful practitioners have significantly grown their churches. Church Growth was pioneered by Donald McGavran (1897-1990), whose Bridges of God (1955) is considered to have launched the movement. McGavran is credited with coining the…