I’m currently reading The Planting and Development of Missionary Churches by John L. Nevius. Granted, the title doesn’t exactly cause goose bumps. But, what he did does. Nevuis completely revolutionized the way people engaged other cultures with the Gospel. It was kind of a big deal. And it still is . . . seeing as how all that went down in 1885 and I’m reading his book in 2009.
I’m reading Nevius’ book as part of an independent study I’m doing this summer with Dr. May. The name of the class is “Indigenous Church Planting Using Chronological Bible Storying”. I have four books to work through (Hodges, Brock, Nevius, Terry) and then a 20+ page paper. It’s good stuff.