(re)Discovering Roland Allen

I was reading tallskinnykiwi again. This post about tea with Roland Allen's grandson led me to downloading "The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church".

To leave new-born Churches to learn by experience is apostolic, to abandon them is not apostolic: to watch over them is apostolic, to be always nursing them is not apostolic: to guide their education is apostolic, to provide it for them is not apostolic.

Roland Allen "The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church"

For a book published in 1927 it has a pretty amazing description of "Church Planting Movements".