Academics

 

J.D. Payne

Associate Professor of Church Planting and Evangelism (2002); Director of the Church Planting Center

E-mail: jdpayne@sbts.edu

Education:

  • B.A., University of Kentucky
  • M.Div., Ph.D., The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary
  • Additional Graduate Studies, University of Louisville Department of Sociology

Dr. Payne has served in pastoral and church planting ministries in churches both in Kentucky and Indiana. Prior to joining the Southern faculty, he was an Assistant Professor at Crossroads Bible College in Indianapolis, and an Adjunct Professor of Church Planting and Evangelism at Southern Seminary. He has written several articles and reviews for academic periodicals in the areas of church planting and church growth. He has professional memberships in the American Society for Church Growth, the Evangelical Theological Society, the Evangelical Missiological Society, the American Society of Missiology, and the American Sociological Association.