Planting Churches Cross-Culturally: North America and Beyond, 2nd ed.
Overview
Ministry training often emphasizes expanding on the work of existing ministries to the neglect of addressing the difficulties of planting new churches in North America and around the world. This volume provides a practical, thorough, biblical, and inspirational corrective. Incorporating relevant sociological, anthropological, and historical insights, Hesselgrave extrapolates 10 phases of cross-cultural church planting that are faithful to Jesus’ commandment to make disciples and to Paul’s missionary example.
This second edition draws on more recent literature, offers refined arguments, and highlights Paul’s ministry pattern. In addition, many charts, graphs, and forms bolster Hesselgrave’s skillful description of effective cross-cultural church planting.
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- Offers a biblical defense of God’s supremacy in all things
- Provides readers with a sound theological foundation for missions
- Examines whether Jesus is the only way to salvation
- The Supremacy of God in Missions through Worship
- The Supremacy of God in Missions through Prayer
- The Supremacy of God in Missions through Suffering
- The Supremacy of Christ as the Conscious Focus of All Saving Faith
- The Supremacy of God among “All the Nations”
- A Passion for God’s Supremacy and Compassion for Man’s Soul: Jonathan Edwards on the Unity of Motives for World Missions
- The Inner Simplicity and Outer Freedom of Worldwide Worship
Top Highlights
“But organizations formed to accomplish them do not really qualify as missions unless upon entering needy areas they keep the church’s primary mission primary. Wherever it is possible to proclaim the gospel and form churches, only those organizations that support evangelism and church planting in a significant way should be thought of as missions. If they do not engage in or support evangelism and church planting, they are not only parachurch, they are paramission.” (Page 26)
“Societal arrangements should therefore be taken into consideration before deciding on initial evangelistic contacts.” (Page 123)
“4. Paul gave priority to establishing churches in strategically located cities.” (Page 66)
“Negatively, we can no longer afford to take young men and women, send them off to schools which effectively seal them off from both the church and the world for a longer or shorter period, and then thrust them into the work at home or abroad. Positively, we must find ways of bringing the church and the school closer together by providing training where churches exist and where they are yet to be established.” (Page 107)
“The church and the churches have no friend like their Lord! If Christians are to love what their Lord loves, they must love the church—and the churches! In the final analysis, Christology is closely allied with ecclesiology. When we inquire into a person’s faith, we do well to ask what that individual thinks of Christ and his church!” (Page 19)
Planting Churches Cross-Culturally provides a sound introduction to the church-planting process, making potential missionaries and church leaders aware of the pitfalls and opportunities that await any new church. It will benefit those church leaders interested in starting a new fellowship of believers in their own community and globally.
—World Christian
- Title: Planting Churches Cross-Culturally: North America and Beyond
- Author: David J. Hesselgrave
- Publisher: Baker
- Print Publication Date: 2000
- Logos Release Date: 2011
- Pages: 348
- Language: English
- Resources: 1
- Format: Digital › Logos Research Edition
- Subjects: Bible. N. T. › Criticism, interpretation, etc; Church development, new › Biblical teaching; Evangelistic work › Biblical teaching; Missions › Biblical teaching; Missions › Theory--Biblical teaching
- ISBNs: 9781441249159, 9780801022227, 144124915X, 0801022223
- Resource ID: LLS:732FBA712EB8BD4C5C31B231C67287FB
- Resource Type: Monograph
- Metadata Last Updated: 2022-09-28T20:46:21Z