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Syncretistic Thai Religion and Church Growth by Gustafson, Jim

Study consisting of a synopsis of an M.A. thesis written at the School of World Mission and Institute of Church Growth in 1970. The thesis is divided into two parts. Part One is analysis of the syncretistic nature of Thai Buddhism as practiced by the Thai peasant. Part two consists of the implications of this analysis for the growth of the Church in Thailand.

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Teaching Programme for New Believers by OMF Thailand

The goal of this teaching programme is to give sufficient teaching necessary to help a group of people recently turned from animism, move through the embrionic church stage to the beginning of the emerging church stage. The Thai version of this programme is available on the ThaiCRC website.

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Thai Church: If You Build It They Will Come? by Lambert, John

One of the more interesting things that I have come across in Thailand is the church planting strategy of a group of zealous Asians (not Thai) who have been working to plant churches in the nation. They seem to be operating in a very different paradigm than most others, in that they build tremendous buildings and facilities from the ground up, but many times, don’t even have more than 50 believers to fill them.

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The Power of the Oikos by Johnson, Alan

Sharing the Gospel through Relational Networks. If Oikos based evangelism is both a Scriptural methodology and effective then we need to develop an intentional plan and strategy for using these principles and methods in our church life.

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