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Genre/Form: | Handbook Handbooks and manuals Guides et manuels Handbooks, manuals, etc Guides, manuels, etc |
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Document Type: | Book |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Roger N McNamara |
ISBN: | 1597811041 9781597811040 9791597811032 1597811033 9781597811033 |
OCLC Number: | 61332645 |
Notes: | Nbl-08 rel. |
Description: | xix, 656 pages ; 24 cm |
Contents: | Part 1 : The conception stage. The biblical foundation for church planting -- Why plant more churches? -- The profile of a church planter -- Developing your philosophy of ministry -- Determining the kind of church to start -- Methods and models of church planting -- Final foundational issues -- Part 2 : The prenatal stage. Putting your team together -- Demographics : determining where to start -- The importance of preplanning (things to do before you arrive in your target city) -- The importance of preplanning (things to do after you arrive in your target city) -- Core group formation and development -- Advertising : putting your best foot forward -- Developing a timeline -- Pitfalls and bottlenecks : avoiding a stillbirth -- Part 3 : The birth and infancy stage. Happy birthday : beginning public services -- Developing your discipleship ministry -- Developing lay leaders -- Planning your worship services -- Organizing the new church -- Building the church's financial integrity -- Developing a stewardship program -- Part 4 : The adolescence stage. Evangelism : staying in focus -- Assimilation : shutting the back door -- Get ready to grow -- Administrating a growing church -- Ministers of mercy : men with servant hearts -- Dealing with problems and problem people in the church -- Cultivating a missions active church -- Choosing a building site -- Goal setting and strategic planning -- Staying in balance -- Part 5 : Adulthood and reproduction. What about a building? -- Planned parenthood -- Ethnic church planting -- Graduation : on your own at last -- Calling a man of God's choosing -- I want that mountain! |
Other Titles: | Yes, but how? handbook of church planting : |
Responsibility: | by Roger N. McNamara and Ken Davis. |
Abstract:
This book is a practical step-by-step guide for church planters and their coaches. It covers everything they need to know to start healthy, growing churches that are biblically faithful and yet culturally relevant. While addressing the who, why, and where of planting new congregations, this comprehensive manual focuses primarily on the "how-tos." The authors use a five-stage "life cycle" (conception, pre-natal development, birth/infancy, adolescent growth, and adult reproduction) to flesh out the entire process of starting and growing a new church. Under each of these stages, a host of essential ministry and planning tasks is addressed so the planter can keep his "baby" church on course and can have the joy of watching the new church grow to maturity and eventually reproduce itself.
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