[beezdotcom]

Look, there's no doubt that some PD strategies taken to the extreme can cause problems - unfortunately, that's true for any strategy for outreach and growth that is taken to extremes. Many, many, many church splits occur simply because new pastors or people violate the 'holy ordinance' of We Don't Do Things That Way Here.

Googling aside, I don't see anything magical about PD that makes it worth lionizing OR demonizing. If you must crusade, you're better served to make it against ANY flavor-of-the-month Christian movement. Meanwhile, a lot of churches seem to successfully borrow from PD without actually "buying into it".

[Blogger]

Again. I say, do the research.

You say “I don’t see anything magical about PD that makes it worth lionizing OR demonizing.” But, apparently you haven’t done more than a surface look at the subject.

One can not see, unless one looks. And for RW and the Church Growth Mvmt, there is more than meets the eye.