What is it about?
This article uses virtue ethics to critique modern church planting movements, and begins to remodel a notion of the practice of mission within the broader Christian life.
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Why is it important?
Church planting materials can have a tendency to subvert all moral and ethical questions for the sake of numerical growth. This article posits a way of understanding mission and church planting that does not ignore best practices, but seeks to first place such practices in the broader context of a life lived well in obedience to Jesus Christ.
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As one who has helped plant a number of churches, this essay is as much written for myself as for others.
Mr Michael Niebauer
Duquesne University
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This page is a summary of: Virtue ethics and church planting: A critical assessment and reevaluation of church planting utilizing Alasdair MacIntyre’s After Virtue, Missiology An International Review, February 2016, SAGE Publications,
DOI: 10.1177/0091829616634123.
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