the legacy of roland allen
Here's an excellent article outlining Roland Allen's missiology.

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His Philosophy of Missions
By J. D. Payne

One of the most controversial, yet most influential missionary thinkers in Church history, was Roland Allen. An examination of his missionary experience reveals nothing too impressive from a humanistic perspective. Rather, it was Allen’s insights into the expansion of the Church that sometimes equated him as being a prophet, a revolutionary, a radical, or a troublemaker...

Allen’s legacy is incredible. Though he has been gone for several years and the majority of his writings are out-of-print, his missiology continues to impact missionaries in both Western and non-Western contexts. For example, Allen’s thinking was a major influence on Donald McGavran, the father of the contemporary Church Growth Movement. Also, throughout much of the world, the Church is experiencing church planting movements. These movements that consist of rapid church growth via the evangelization of different peoples and then congregationalizing those peoples into local churches, primarily rest upon the missiological foundation advocated by Allen years ago. Just as Hubert J. B. Allen noted in the subtitle of his work, Roland Allen was a “pioneer, priest, and prophet,” both during his day and ours.

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