This unique book of 115 pages was written to indigenous workers, not Americans nor American missionaries, nor an English-speaking audience, but for workers in third-world countries. It was intended to be translated into other languages. The purpose of the book was to show indigenous Christians that they can raise up a church that would not look like the churches raised up by missionaries from England and the United States. We encourage you to read this hard-hitting book. If you know of a non-English speaking Christian worker, we invite you to send that believer a copy of this book. The Americanization of Christianity is not for the conformist. It is written for the brave-hearted Christian who would like to see indigenous believers expressing the church in a way that matches their own culture rather than an American expression.
Earl Eugene "Gene" Edwards is an American house church planter, a Christian author, and a former Southern Baptist pastor and evangelist. A graduate of Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary, he was instrumental in pioneering the house church concept in the United States.
Edwards’ books and tapes laid the ground work for the house church movement that began in the United States in the 1970s. Groups and churches that he planted pattern their gatherings around primitive Christian practices such as meeting in homes, writing their own songs, and meeting in an open, participatory style. These groups aim for a distributed ministry model in which no one in the group possesses greater authority than any other so that all will be encouraged to function and speak in the meeting.
Gene is an author of some thirty books.
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