Stetzer in 2017

Edward John Stetzer (born 1966) is an American author, speaker, researcher, Baptist pastor, church planter, and Christian missiologist. Stetzer is Billy Graham Distinguished Chair of Church, Mission, and Evangelism at Wheaton College and Executive Director of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College. He is the North American Regional Director for Lausanne International. He is a contributor to the North American discussion on missional church, church planting, church revitalization, and Christian cultural engagement.

Effective July 3, 2023, Ed Stetzer will be the dean of the Talbot School of Theology at Biola University.[1]

Early life and education

Stetzer was born in Long Island and grew up Catholic in Levittown, New York, outside New York City.

He holds master's degrees from Liberty University School of Divinity and the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, a Doctor of Ministry from Beeson Divinity School, and a Ph.D. from the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.[2]

Ministry

Stetzer is Billy Graham Distinguished Chair of Church, Mission, and Evangelism at Wheaton College and Executive Director of the Billy Graham Center at Wheaton College. He will become the Dean of Talbot School of Theology in July 2023.[3] Formerly, he worked as Executive Director of LifeWay Research, a division of LifeWay Christian Resources, and as LifeWay's Missiologist in Residence. Before that, Stetzer served as Director of Research and Missiologist-In-Residence for the North American Mission Board.

Stetzer became Visiting Professor of Research and Missiology at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in 2019.[2]

Stetzer is a contributing editor for Christianity Today[4] through his blog, The Exchange, a columnist for Outreach magazine.[5] He is also the Executive Editor of The Gospel Project, a church curriculum produced by Lifeway Christian Resources.[6]

In 2020, he became interim pastor at Calvary Baptist Church in New York City.[7]

Published books

  • Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age (B&H Publishing Group, 2003)
  • Perimeters of Light: Biblical Boundaries for the Emerging Church (with Elmer Towns, Moody Publishing, 2004)
  • Breaking the Missional Code (with David Putman; B&H Publishing Group, 2006)
  • Planting Missional Churches (B&H Publishers, 2006)
  • Comeback Churches (with Mike Dodson; B&H Publishing Group, 2007)
  • 11 Innovations in the Local Church (with Elmer Towns and Warren Bird; Regal Publishing, 2007)
  • Compelled by Love: The Most Excellent Way to Missional Living (with Philip Nation; New Hope Publishers, 2008)
  • Lost and Found: The Younger Unchurched and the Churches that Reach Them (with Richie Stanley and Jason Hayes; B&H Publishers, 2009)
  • MissionShift: Global Mission Issues in the Third Millennium (with David Hesselgrave; B&H Publishing Group, 2010)
  • Viral Churches: Helping Church Planters Become Movement Makers (with Warren Bird; Jossey-Bass, 2010)
  • Transformational Church: Creating a New Scorecard for Congregations (with Thom S. Rainer, B&H Publishing Group, 2010)
  • Subversive Kingdom: Living as Agents of Gospel Transformation (B&H Publishing Group, 2012)
  • Compelled: Living the Mission of God (with Philip Nation, New Hope Publishers, 2012)
  • The Mission of God Study Bible (with Philip Nation, B&H Publishing Group, 2012)
  • Transformational Groups: Creating a New Scorecard for Groups (with Eric Geiger; B&H Publishing Group, 2014)
  • Igrejas que transformam o Brasil: sinais de um movimento revolucionário e inspirador (with Sérgio Queiroz; Mundo Cristão, 2017)

References

  1. ↑ "Biola University Appoints Ed Stetzer as Dean of Talbot School of Theology". Biola News - Biola University Blogs. 2023-02-21. Retrieved 2023-06-11.
  2. 1 2 Trinity Evangelical Divinity School, Faculty: Ed Stetzer, PhD Archived 2019-05-24 at the Wayback Machine, accessed, May 23, 2019.
  3. ↑ Velasco, Brenda (2023-02-21). "Biola University Appoints Ed Stetzer as Dean of Talbot School of Theology". Biola University. Archived from the original on 2023-03-27.
  4. ↑ "Christianity Today Staff," Christianity Today, accessed May 23, 2019.
  5. ↑ "Ed Stetzer, LifeWay Research," Outreach Magazine, accessed March 26, 2011.
  6. ↑ "The Gospel Project," LifeWay, accessed April 6, 2016.
  7. ↑ Ed Stetzer, Calvary Baptist Church and Worship in New York City in a Pandemic, christianitytoday.com, USA, December 14, 2020
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