Cracking the Whip: Reaching the Unreached Through Planting Churches That Plant Churches
Veteran church planter and NAMB church-planting coach Peyton Jones observes that everything we’re doing to reverse the decline of the Western Church isn’t working. In Cracking the Whip, Peyton channels his love of Indiana Jones movies and uses familiar imagery to urge church leaders to go back to the book of Acts and learn how to take new ground for the Kingdom. He points out that our post-Christian world is very much like the apostles’ pre-Christian world. “If the challenges are the same, then so are the solutions,” he says. “Rediscovering the first-century tactics will lead to first-century results.” Peyton challenges church leaders to go on a new adventure of reaching the unreached. Just like Jesus cracked the whip in the temple to stop the moneychangers from keeping seekers from finding God, he might very well crack the whip to get today’s Church to mobilize and go. Revealing what he has discovered as “the hidden power within our churches,” Peyton thoroughly explores what it looks like to lead people on an adventure to search out genuine opportunities that lead to genuine relationships and genuine gospel conversation—disciple multiplication that ultimately results in new churches reaching the unreached. “Why let your people settle for the classroom when the adventure of mission lies outside it?” Peyton asks. “Don’t tell them about the wonders of archaeology and never let them raid any temples.”
- Title: Cracking the Whip: Reaching the Unreached Through Planting Churches That Plant Churches
- Author: Peyton Jones
- Publisher: Exponential
- Print Publication Date: 2017
- Logos Release Date: 2022
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Ebook
- ISBNs: 9780310531104, 0310531101, 9780310531128, 0310531128
- Resource ID: LLS:9780310531104
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-11-07T23:34:21Z