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View the PDF document Title: Bibliography of Thai Christianity
Author: Swanson, Herb
Description: The purpose of this bibliography is to provide an extensive list of English-language research materials useful for the study of Christianity in Thailand.
Subject: Church History; Church Planting
Year Published: 2004
Pages: 43 Filesize:
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View the PDF document Title: Christian Theology in a country of temples
Author: Staveren, Karsten van
Description: Article about the difficultly explaining the gospel to a Thai Buddhist. One of the author's key point is focusing on the exclusive differences between Theravada Buddhism and Christianity will not be fruitful in a Thai context
Subject: Contextualization; Church Planting
Year Published: 2011
Pages: 15 Filesize:
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View the PDF document Title: Christians without a church
Author: Visser, Marten
Description: A trip through Isaan leads the author to many isolated Christians, highlighting the need for more church planters
Subject: Church Planting; Isaan
Year Published: 2011
Pages: 2 Filesize:
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View the PDF document Title: Churchplanting model and leadership
Author: Swanson, Herb
Description: Short articles about churchmodel within CCT in north Thailand and approach to leadership shift to local people.
Subject: Church Planting; Church History; Leadership
Year Published: 1996
Pages: 2 Filesize:
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View the PDF document Title: Marburger Background
Author: Swanson, Herb
Description: Few short articles about the Marburger Mission in Thailand as of 1950
Subject: Mission Organizations; Church Planting
Year Published: 1995
Pages: 2 Filesize:
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View the PDF document Title: One-Way Missions in the Age of Global Christianity: A View from Thailand
Author: Zehner, Edwin
Description: This article outlines the rapidly increasing level of missionary activity by Thailand’s Protestant churches and then notes a tendency for missions to flow from groups of higher prestige and socio-economic power to groups of lower prestige. Noting that the same pattern is observable among Christian missions worldwide, the author calls for greater attention to the patterns of church-mission partnerships, greater openness to spiritual leadership from groups of lower status, and greater attention to the work of non- Western missions worldwide. He also notes that failure to correct these patterns could sometimes lead missions to overlook the very kinds of movements among less respected peoples that had given rise to the churches in which their own personnel had been raised.
Subject: Church Planting; Culture
Year Published: 2010
Pages: 9 Filesize:
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View the PDF document Title: Pastoral Care
Author: Swanson, Herb
Description: Few short articles about pastoral counseling in the CCT, the CCT's struggle with pastoral care and self-support for churches and rural groups.
Subject: Church History | 1800-1900; Church History | 1900-1950; Leadership; Church Planting
Year Published: 1995
Pages: 3 Filesize:
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View the PDF document Title: Pauls Methods & Northern Thai Church History
Author: Swanson, Herb
Description: Short article comparing Paul's method with methods used by presbyterian missionaries in Northern Thailand
Subject: Church Planting
Year Published: 1996
Pages: 1 Filesize:
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View the PDF document Title: Report on the 2011 Thai Congress 7.5
Author: Nicholson, Gregg
Description: A report describing the Thai Vision 2015 - "I will be one of a 100,000 to lead a million to Christ by 2015"
Subject: Church History ; Church Planting; Evangelism
Year Published: 2011
Pages: 2 Filesize:
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View the PDF document Title: Researching & Mapping to Reach a Nation - Thailand
Author: Nicholson, Gregg
Description: An article presented at Lausanne 2010 describing the work of the Thailand Evangelism Committe and what they are doing to reach the nation for Christ
Subject: Church History; Church Planting; Evangelism
Year Published: 2010
Pages: 4 Filesize:
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View the PDF document Title: Structural And Ministry Philosophy Issues In Church Planting Among Buddhist Peoples
Author: Johnson, Alan
Description: Missionaries involved in church planting among Buddhist populations wrestle with the problem of very slow church planting and church growth among existing congregations. The author response to this has been to deal with issues of contextualization to see how the Gospel message and church life can be made to better fit the local context and thus become more relevant to the people.
Subject: Contextualization; Church Planting
Pages: 20 Filesize:
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View the PDF document Title: Teaching Programme for New Believers
Author: OMF Thailand
Description: 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.
Subject: Discipleship; Church Planting
Pages: 56 Filesize:
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View the PDF document Title: Thai Church: If You Build It They Will Come?
Author: Lambert, John
Description: 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.
Subject: Church Planting
Year Published: 2011
Pages: 4 Filesize:
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View the PDF document Title: The Power of the Oikos
Author: Johnson, Alan
Description: 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.
Subject: Evangelism; Church Planting
Year Published: 1998
Pages: 13 Filesize:
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View the PDF document Title: “You Can Be a Christian, but You Can’t Get Baptized”
Author: Dahlfred, Karl
Description: The signficance of ceremony in Thailand is applied to the speed and requirements for baptism in Thai churches
Subject: Evangelism; Discipleship; Church Planting
Year Published: 2011
Pages: 3 Filesize:
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