The following books were used during the 2006-2007 academic year at Westminster Theological Seminary, in the course on Church Growth and Church Planting taught by Manuel Ortiz, Professor of Practical Theology, Emeritus, and Susan Baker, Adjunct Professor of Practical Theology:

From the seminary catalog:

Church Growth and Church Planting

Purpose:
• To provide the student with various aspects of church growth methods, principles, and practices
• To review a brief history of the School of Church Growth
• To evaluate church growth principles and practices in order to become better equipped in the area of church growth ministries
• To develop skills in relationship to growing a church

Topics covered include church growth philosophy, history of church growth, organic church growth, theological presuppositions, critique of church growth, review of various urban models of church growth, and signs and wonders as a means to growth.‎
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