Breaking Tradition to Accomplish Vision: Training Leaders for a Church-Planting Movement

by Paul R. Gupta, Sherwood G. Lingenfelter

Hindustan Bible Institute (HBI), an institution founded in Chennai, India, to teach pastors and to foster church planting, over time had lost its vision. This is the fascinating story of dismantling and re-building the HBI program to return to its original vision, planting one million churches in one million Indian villages. It is accompanied by insightful and cross-cultural observations by Lingenfelter, provost of Fuller Theological Seminary.

244 pages, Paperback

First published February 1, 2006

Reviews

[Brian]

Tradition has once again choked the spread of good news through the mass propagation of western forms disguised as spiritual maturity. Gupta reveals the lies that the American church has spread and formulates a new hypothesis for doing ministry which really isn't new at all, it returns us to the original intent Jesus left for his disciples.

[Brad]

Great book on the differences between training and education. And a good warning on selling out the vision in the pursuit of accreditation. There is a place for both types in a movement, but this book helps the reader determine what their individual role should be.