44 Questions for Church Planters

by Schaller, Lyle E.; Tucker, Edward Lee

• ISBN13: 9780687132843
• ISBN10: 0687132843
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1991-03-01
• Publisher: Lightning Source Inc

Summary

Lyle E. Schaller is America's most influential religious leader among all denominations, according to a survey of more than three thousand religious leaders conducted by the Hartford Religious Research Center and reported in the Los Angeles Times.

Author Biography

Lyle E. Schaller is the consultant with the Yokefellow Institute in Richmond, Indiana, and with the J.M. Ormond Center for Research and Development at the Duke University Divinity School in Durham, North Carolina

Table of Contents

Introduction	p. 9
Why Start New Churches?	p. 13
That First Big Era	p. 14
A Threefold Strategy	p. 20
Smaller and Fewer	p. 22
Why Plant More Churches?	p. 26
Three Crucial Variables	p. 37
What Works Best?	p. 38
Five Reasons	p. 39
The Second Variable	p. 42
The Third Variable	p. 44
Adoptions and Divisions	p. 46
Do We Adopt?	p. 46
Why?	p. 47
Should We Colonize?	p. 50
The Walkouts	p. 54
The Multi-Site Option	p. 56
Where Do We Meet?	p. 59
That Temporary Meeting Place	p. 60
That Permanent Location	p. 63
How Large?	p. 65
Small Groups or Large Crowd?	p. 65
Staffing the New Mission	p. 69
How Much Land?	p. 74
What Is Our Parish?	p. 75
Who, Why, and How?	p. 77
Eight Approaches	p. 78
Why Will They Come Here?	p. 84
Can Alexander Graham Bell Help Us?	p. 90
Invasion of Privacy	p. 91
The Second Sunday Syndrome	p. 92
The Burden on the Pastor	p. 94
How Much Rejection?	p. 94
Who Responds?	p. 95
Should We Use It?	p. 96
Should We Use Direct Mail?	p. 98
A Fundamental Difference	p. 100
The Cost Benefit Question	p. 100
When and to Whom?	p. 101
Redundancy and Mailing Lists	p. 103
Twelve Questions on Identity	p. 105
Who Is the Minister?	p. 108
Collegial, Team, or Unilateral?	p. 109
The Displaced People Syndrome	p. 111
The Denominational Identity	p. 114
Gemeinschaft or Gesellschaft?	p. 115
Which Generation?	p. 117
Believers or Non-believers?	p. 118
High Demand or Voluntary Association?	p. 119
Commuter or Community?	p. 120
Place and Identity?	p. 121
The Organizational Life	p. 122
New Becomes Old	p. 126
Those Pioneer Volunteer Leaders	p. 128
The Place of Missions	p. 133
Six Questions on Real Estate and Finances	p. 136
The Initial Financing	p. 137
Financing That First Building	p. 141
That Second Building	p. 149
Municipal Restrictions on the Religious Use of Land	p. 150
What Is a Good Site?	p. 152
Design Questions	p. 153
Why Is Continued Growth So Important?	p. 158
Why Grow?	p. 159
A Denominational Perspective	p. 163
Where and When?	p. 163
When?	p. 168
Who Initiates?	p. 169
Enlisting and Training Church Planters	p. 172
Can This Be a High Priority?	p. 179
How Many?	p. 183
Who Delivers the Bad News?	p. 185
Notes	p. 189
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