Planting Growing Churches for the 21st Century: A Comprehensive Guide for New Churches and Those Desiring Renewal
Overview
Planting Growing Churches for the 21st Century is not about how many people you can get through the church doors on Sunday morning, but about planting and growing spiritually healthy churches that are equipped to reach today’s unchurched generation. With vision, purpose, and practical advice, Aubrey Malphurs carefully leads you through the six stages of a new church, including funding, creating a strong servant leadership, and establishing values. This third edition will inspire, encourage, and equip ministry leaders.
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- Provides insight into planting spiritually healthy and relevant churches
- Establishes six stages of starting a church
- Offers advice on funding, growing, and establishing values in your church
- The Preparation for Church Planting
- What Are We Talking About? The Definition of Church Planting
- Do We Need Another Church? The Reasons for Church Planting
- How Do You Make Ends Meet? The Funds for Church Planting
- What You Don’t Know Might Hurt You! The Assumptions of Church Planting
- The Personnel of Church Planting
- Are You a Church Planter? The Practice and Application of Assessment
- Leading with Sustained Excellence: A Strong Servant-Leadership
- The Process of Church Planting
- We Want to Have a Baby: The Conception Stage, Part 1
- We’re Going to Have a Baby! The Conception Stage, Part 2
- Childbirth Classes: The Development Stage
- It’s a Baby! The Birth Stage
- Feed Them and They Grow! The Growth Stage
- I’m No Longer a Kid! The Maturity Stage
- Let’s Have a Baby: The Reproduction Stage
Top Highlights
“I define a local church as a gathering of professing believers in Christ who, under leadership, have organized to observe the ordinances and obey Jesus’ Great Commission. This definition has two basic ingredients: being and doing.” (Page 25)
“I define church planting as an exhausting but exciting venture of faith that involves the planned process of beginning and growing new local churches, based on Jesus’ promise and in obedience to his Great Commission.” (Page 19)
“Church planters are initiators not maintainers. They’re characterized as proactive and intentional.” (Page 20)
“The church needs to equip a generation of Christians with a deep passion to plant biblically based, spiritually healthy, Great Commission churches. These in turn will commit themselves to the task of sowing churches to reach various generations (modern and postmodern) and the people groups at home and abroad. This is by no means a new vision; it is already present in the pages of the book of Acts!” (Page 14)
“the biblical measure of success is whether they’re making disciples.” (Page 30)
- Title: Planting Growing Churches for the 21st Century: A Comprehensive Guide for New Churches and Those Desiring Renewal
- Author: Aubrey M. Malphurs
- Publisher: Baker
- Print Publication Date: 2004
- Logos Release Date: 2011
- Pages: 432
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subject: Church development, New
- ISBNs: 9781441256454, 9780801065149, 0801065143, 1441256458
- Resource ID: LLS:ED0797E70E5E2FB3ACC068495D13AEB7
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-29T23:36:23Z