Drawing on insights from the training practices of the English medieval craft guilds, a global survey of 500 church planters, interviews with artists and church planting trainers and the authors 30 years of ministry experience, 'The Craft of Church Planting' offers a distinctive and imaginative perspective on the methods used to train future practitioners in the art of church planting. Demonstrating how training for the next generation of church planting leaders might be informed by the historic master-apprentice model, guild learning communities, creativity and an artisan approach to ministry, this book is a vital resource to inform the methods of training for the next generation of church planters.
In The Nuts and Bolts of Church Planting, trusted author and church-planting expert Aubrey Malphurs shares the basic steps of a process that every church planter needs, including establishing values, mission, vision, and strategy reaching ...
This is not a step-by-step, how to book that you can read and set aside, but a reference book that church planters will want to turn to on a regular basis." —Eddie Gibbs, professor of Church Growth at Fuller Theological Seminary and co ...
Leonard I. Sweet, Soul Tsunami: Sinkor Swim inNew Millennium Culture (Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1999), 18. 9. Eddie Gibbs, ChurchNext: Quantum Changes in How We Do Ministry (DownersGrove, Ill.:InterVarsity Press,2000), ...
Thomas Reeves, The Empty Church (New York: Simon and Schuster, 1996), 61. 27. Jacquet, ed., Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, 1988, 262; compared with Lindner, ed., Yearbook of American and Canadian Churches, 2001, 348, 352.
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Church Plantology by Peyton Jones is a robust guide to planting that will help planters to provide the foundation necessary to survive beyond the initial first years so that they don't end up a walking statistic.
It was a major activity of the early disciples. Successful church planting, however, demands skill and embraces multiple factors. Dag Heward-Mills analyzes the various components of church planting in this book.
This book not only gives a realistic picture that confirms hunches and explodes myths, but it provides insight into how the church must change to reach a new and changed world with the hope of the gospel.Readers will find a richly textured ...
The life of the disciple is a life of constant spiritual warfare. ... Discipled. Warriors. Someone once said that we do not fight for victory, but from victory. even in light of Christ's work on the cross, missionaries continue to find ...
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