{"id":575,"date":"2013-01-09T08:50:43","date_gmt":"2013-01-09T00:50:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jacksonwu\/?p=575"},"modified":"2013-01-09T08:50:43","modified_gmt":"2013-01-09T00:50:43","slug":"some-reviews-of-t4t","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jacksonwu\/2013\/01\/09\/some-reviews-of-t4t\/","title":{"rendered":"Some Reviews of T4T"},"content":{"rendered":"<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC \"-\/\/W3C\/\/DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional\/\/EN\" \"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/TR\/REC-html40\/loose.dtd\">\n<html><head><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><meta http-equiv=\"content-type\" content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\"><\/head><body><p>I know a number of mission agencies will begin having winter meetings in the coming weeks. This means a lot of discussion about church planting strategies and methods. To stimulate a little discussion, I\u2019ve offer two reviews of Steve Smith and Ying Kai\u2019s <em>T4T: A Discipleship Re-revolution<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align:center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/product\/B005OS3PK0\/ref=as_li_ss_il?ie=UTF8&amp;camp=1789&amp;creative=390957&amp;creativeASIN=B005OS3PK0&amp;linkCode=as2&amp;tag=jacwu-20\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/ws.assoc-amazon.com\/widgets\/q?_encoding=UTF8&amp;ASIN=B005OS3PK0&amp;Format=_SL160_&amp;ID=AsinImage&amp;MarketPlace=US&amp;ServiceVersion=20070822&amp;WS=1&amp;tag=jacwu-20\" width=\"153\" height=\"240\"><\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border:none!important;margin:0!important\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/www.assoc-amazon.com\/e\/ir?t=jacwu-20&amp;l=as2&amp;o=1&amp;a=B005OS3PK0\" width=\"1\" height=\"1\"><\/p>\n<p>The first review is from George Robinson (D.Miss, Western Seminary) is Assistant Professor of Missions and Evangelism at Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary in Wake Forest, NC. His short article was originally published in Global Missiology (Oct 2011). <a href=\"http:\/\/ojs.globalmissiology.org\/index.php\/english\/issue\/view\/64\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Click here to read it<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The second is my own review, which is listed on my <a title=\"book\u00a0reviews\" href=\"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/jacksonwu\/book-reviews\/\" target=\"_blank\" class=\" decorated-link\"><strong>book reviews<\/strong> page<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Whether you love or hate it, the book has to be taken seriously as it reflects the thinking of so many mission practitioners.<\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know a number of mission agencies will begin having winter meetings in the coming weeks. This means a lot of discussion about church planting strategies and methods. To stimulate a little discussion, I\u2019ve offer two reviews of Steve Smith and Ying Kai\u2019s T4T: A Discipleship Re-revolution. The first review is from George Robinson (D.Miss, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2368,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[50,2124,230],"class_list":["post-575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mission-methods","tag-books-reviews","tag-ecclesiology","tag-t4t"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v21.1 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Some Reviews of T4T<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"I know a number of mission agencies will begin having winter meetings in the coming weeks. 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