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Starting Missional Churches: Life with God in the Neighborhood

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, 2014
ISBN: 9780830896561

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All mission is local—the people of God joining the work of God in a particular place. In Starting Missional Churches Mark Lau Branson and Nicholas Warnes introduce us to seven missional churches while examining common challenges regarding their genesis.

Using stories, interviews with pastors and a look at common preconceived notions of church planting in the West, this guide brings together resources of the missional church conversation with the creativity and energy of those who are experimenting with diverse planting activities and practices across the country.

Curated by a pastor and a professor, this work highlights diverse modern examples of congregations focused on reaching their communities with a missional mindset. Learn from these stories how to build a vibrant, engaging church—one that generates redemptive witness in our neighborhoods and in our world.

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  • Introduces us to seven missional churches while examining common challenges regarding their genesis.
  • Brings together resources of the missional church conversation with the creativity and energy.
  • Highlights diverse modern examples of congregations focused on reaching their communities.
Recognizing that many previous models of church planting are losing their effectiveness in the twenty-first century, Mark Lau Branson and Nicholas Warnes offer a compelling vision of church planting for our times that is deeply rooted in missional theology and in the particularities of the neighborhoods in which churches are planted. Built around the narrative of seven diverse churches that embody this new way of church planting, Starting Missional Churches offers not easy solutions but rather deep wisdom about the genesis of new church communities today, and is essential reading for church planters and everyone who cares about the future of the church.

--C. Christopher Smith, coauthor of Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of Jesus

If you want to learn about and be inspired by missional churches that are gospel driven, prayer shaped, and parish and neighborhood oriented, this book is for you. The emphases on God as the primary agent in church planting, neighbors as subjects and actors, leadership as plural, and crossing economic and cultural boundaries as crucial makes this book refreshing, unique and timely!

--Rick Richardson, director, masters in missional church movements, Wheaton College, author of Reimagining Evangelism

Nick Warnes is a passionate church planter who reflects well. Mark Lau Branson is an excellent thought leader who has planted and participated in daring missional communities. The two of them have come together with several other engaged missional thinkers and practicing planters to offer compelling stories that will inspire missional leaders to renew local missional communities. Stories (re)create worlds, and this volume is in the business of renewing leaders and communities to shape our local neighborhoods (our worlds) for the gospel.

--Kyle J. A. Small, associate academic dean and associate professor of church leadership, Western Theological Seminary, Holland, Michigan

  • Title: Starting Missional Churches: Life with God in the Neighborhood
  • Authors: Nicholas Warnes, Mark Branson
  • Publisher: IVP
  • Print Publication Date: 2014
  • Logos Release Date: 2014
  • Pages: 192
  • Language: English
  • Resources: 1
  • Format: Digital › Logos Reader Edition
  • Subjects: Missional church movement; RELIGION Christian Church Administration
  • ISBNs: 9780830896561, 9780830841165, 0830841164, 0830896562
  • Resource ID: LLS:9780830896561
  • Resource Type: Monograph
  • Metadata Last Updated: 2025-01-31T20:13:52Z

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