Description: This careful five-view analysis helps evangelicals understand the Church Growth Movement's strengths and weaknesses and arrive at their own conclusions on issues that affect the future direction of the church.
Brief description: Paul E. Engle, series editor for Counterpoints Church Life, is an ordained minister who served for twenty-two years in pastoral ministry in Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Illinois, and Michigan. He is an adjunct teacher in several seminaries in this country and internationally. He serves as associate publisher and executive editor in the Church, Academic, and Ministry Resources team at Zondervan. He and his wife Margie, live in Grand Rapids, Michigan.