The primary purpose of this dissertation is to examine the impact of Korean revivalism from 1903 to 1963 on Korean Evangelical Christianity. Korean revivalism was originally influenced by American revivalism through the work of early American missionaries discipled by the Americ…
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Attendance in U.S. churches continues to decline, while leaders struggle to identify both root causes and possible responses. While the causes for decline are numerous, The Great Digital Commission: Embracing Social Media for Church Growth and Transformation utilizes the fields …
Launching churches is a new paradigm for church planting in North America for the twenty-first century, and an effective way to gather a crowd, break the 200 attendance barrier quickly, become financially sustainable faster, and reproduce. Most churches start small and stay smal…
This project addresses the question of whether good preaching can cause congregational growth. The location of the work was two Black churches in the North Georgia Conference of The United Methodist Church and included preaching a variety of sermons followed by congregational re…
The United States is becoming increasingly urbanized. The metropolitan areas are thriving with new residents and new industries. While the cities are growing, the church is declining. The church has a problem to solve. How do we plant rapidly growing churches in growing metropol…
Christians are commissioned to disciple the nations. Many attempts to fulfill this commission encounter variables that hinder the fulfillment of this dictum. Statistics indicate significant proportions of church planting endeavors are challenged to survive beyond one year. This …
Compassion ministry in churches can be a great evangelistic tool to win the lost. Pentecostal churches in the district of Tiruchirapalli are increasing in number and they have been using many methods in their evangelistic work. This study seeks to explore the effectiveness of ev…
There are four criteria that serve as guideposts for the ministry of evangelization. Knowledge of God's Providence affirms the hand of God in the activity that seeks to invite people into vital membership of God's reign. God is the author of our salvation and the initiator of ou…
The purpose of this dissertation is to understand the centrality of mercy to the nature and mission of God and to identify contemporary evidence of the significant contribution of mercy ministry to the growth and health of the church. God has called me to the ministry of mercy. …
The purpose of this doctoral project is to justify and promote the implementation of a dynamic contextualization in evangelical churches, especially theologically conservative Baptist churches. To support this purpose, this project explores a contextualization that is based on s…
People in the twenty-first century search for authentic relationships and a place to belong. While the surrounding culture and social media provide options that seem to offer solutions to these challenges, often people find them ultimately lacking. However, the Church not only p…
Estimates are that 15% of the world’s population have some kind of cognitive, physical, or developmental disability. Research indicates that the majority of those with disabilities consider faith to be important but are less likely to attend religious services than non-disabled …
Throughout the pages of this Doctor of Ministry Report, the project director researched and developed an assimilation plan for Mountain View Baptist Church (MVBC) in Hickory, North Carolina. The project director defines assimilation as the absorption of a person into the complet…
The purpose of this project was to measure the changes in knowledge, attitude, and behavior of parents from the Anglican Church Arochukwu South East, Nigeria who participated in a twelve-week training event on Biblically based parenting style.
This project seeks to help the local church make disciples who make disciples by comparing the effectiveness of sermon-based small groups to discipleship groups in making and multiplying disciples. Sermon-based small groups are eight to sixteen individuals of mixed gender that c…
There is a growing phenomenon in the United States of America: multiracial churches. While earlier research indicates that church growth typically happens in more homogenous congregations, more and more churches are growing that are multiracial. This case study focused on the gr…
This qualitative case study shared and gained consensus from a nationwide panel of church leaders within the African Methodist Episcopal Church (AME) on implementing a Crisis Emergency Plan (CEP) within places of worship. The Steeple Award church recipient (2019), who served as …
In-person attendance at churches in America has been declining for decades. Prior to the pandemic, the recent chief culprit for this decline had become resistance among younger cohorts. As expected, declining overall church attendance significantly contributed to financial distr…
In this qualitative exploratory case study, Silent Generation, Baby Boomer, Generation X, Millennial, and GenZ participants revealed their perceptions of technology influences on religious practices and disclosed ways they practice their faith during the COVID-19 pandemic. The p…