Ed Stetzer, PhD
Ed Stetzer is affiliate professor of research and missional ministry at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School. He earned his BS at Shorter College, his MAR at Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, his DMin at Beeson Divinity School, and his MDiv and PhD at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary.
Dr. Stetzer has planted churches in New York, Pennsylvania, and Georgia and transitioned declining churches in Indiana and Georgia. He has trained pastors and church planters on five continents and has written dozens of articles and books. For three years, Dr. Stetzer was a professor at Southern Seminary in Louisville, Kentucky. He is the director of Lifeway Research and Lifeway's Missiologist in Residence. His books include Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age (2003), Perimeters of Light: Biblical Boundaries for the Emerging Church (with Elmer Towns, 2004), Strategic Outreach (with Eric Ramsey, 2005), Breaking the Missional Code (with David Putman, 2006), Planting Missional Churches (2006), Comeback Churches (with Mike Dodson, 2007), and 11 Innovations in the Local Church (with Elmer Towns and Warren Bird, 2007). He also contributed to The Mission of Today's Church (2007).