Logos Bible Software
Sign In
Products>Global Church Planting: Biblical Principles and Best Practices for Multiplication

Global Church Planting: Biblical Principles and Best Practices for Multiplication

Publisher:
, 2011
ISBN: 9781441249197
Be the first to rate this.
Logos Editions are fully connected to your library and Bible study tools.

$33.99

Overview

With nearly 50 years combined global church-planting experience, Craig Ott and Gene Wilson offer here a comprehensive, up-to-date guide for cross-cultural church planting. Combining substantive biblical principles and missiological understanding with practical insights, this book walks readers through the various models and development phases of church planting. It emphasizes the role of the missionary church planter, advocating methods that lead to church multiplication. The authors offer helpful reflection on current trends and provide best practices gathered from research and empirical findings around the globe. They take up a number of special issues not addressed in most church-planting books, such as use of short-term teams, partnerships, wise use of resources, and contextualization. Full of case studies and real examples from around the world, this practical text will benefit professors and students in church planting, cross-cultural, and missions courses; church planters and missionaries; and missional church readers.

In the Logos edition, this volume is enhanced by amazing functionality. Important terms link to dictionaries, encyclopedias, and a wealth of other resources in your digital library. Perform powerful searches to find exactly what you’re looking for. Take the discussion with you using tablet and mobile apps. With Logos Bible Software, the most efficient and comprehensive research tools are in one place, so you get the most out of your study.

Save more when you purchase this book as part of the Global Missions Collection.

Resource Experts
  • Offers a comprehensive guide for cross-cultural church planting
  • Includes helpful reflection on current trends and best practices
  • Examines special issues not addressed in most church-planting books
  • The Task of Church Planting
  • The Reasons for Church Planting
  • New Testament Beginnings
  • Church Multiplication and Indigenous Church-Planting Movements
  • Apostolic Church Planters
  • The Shape of the Church
  • Pioneer, Reproduction, and Regional Approaches to Church Planting
  • The Developmental Phases of a Church Plant: An Overview
  • Preparing, Part 1: Targeting and Commissioning
  • Preparing, Part 2: Understanding and Strategizing
  • Launching: Evangelism and Discipleship
  • Establishing: Congregating and Maturing
  • Structuring: Expanding and Empowering
  • Reproducing: Strengthening and Sending
  • The Personal Life of Church Planters
  • Church-Planting Teams
  • Developing Servants, Leaders, and Planters
  • Partnerships and Resources in Church Planting
  • Planting Churches with Kingdom Impact

Top Highlights

“Church planting is that ministry which, through evangelism and discipleship, establishes multiplying kingdom communities of believers in Jesus Christ who are committed to fulfilling biblical purposes under local spiritual leaders.” (Page 209)

“They must be kingdom communities, healthy congregations, reproducing organisms, indigenous churches, and interdependent fellowships.” (Page 13)

“First and foremost, the church is a spiritual entity, conceived by the Father (Eph. 1:3–6), built by Christ (Matt. 16:18), and indwelt by the Holy Spirit (Eph. 2:19–22). The church is God’s primary vehicle for manifesting the nature of the kingdom of God in this age and among all people.” (Page 5)

“‘Paul did not go out as a missionary preacher merely to convert individuals; he went to establish churches from which the light might radiate throughout the whole country’” (Page 26)

“There were at least four themes in Jesus’s teaching that provided a conceptual framework for the disciples and apostles as they proclaimed the name of Jesus and gathered believers: (1) expanding the kingdom, (2) sowing and reaping, (3) gathering true worshipers, and (4) making disciples.” (Page 41)

This comprehensive textbook provides an excellent overview of what researchers have discovered about church planting and what cross-cultural church planters need to know in order to be effective. It provides a beautiful balance of theory and practical applications.

—Evangelical Missions Quarterly

Global Church Planting offers a comprehensive, biblical foundation for starting new churches, but it also gets down to the nitty-gritty of finding funding, developing a sense of the local culture, and pulling together the team that best meets the specific needs of growing a congregation in the community where the church is being planted. . . . It should be read by anyone thinking about planting a church, but I think it should also be read by anyone in church leadership.

—Rick Warren, founder, Saddleback Church

Craig Ott is associate professor of mission and intercultural studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School where he occupies the ReachGlobal Chair of Mission. He is the coauthor of Encountering Theology of Mission.

Gene Wilson is church-planting director for ReachGlobal, the international mission of the Evangelical Free Church of America, and director of their annual Cross-Cultural Church Planting School. He served as a church planter in Canada for 18 years and a church-planting trainer and coach in Latin America and the Caribbean for eight years.

Reviews

0 ratings

Sign in with your Faithlife account

    $33.99