Global Church Planting

by Ott, Craig

• ISBN13: 9780801035807
• ISBN10: 0801035805
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2011-01-01
• Publisher: Baker Academic

Summary

With over forty years combined global church-planting experience, Craig Ott and Gene Wilson are well qualified to write 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. Advocating methods that lead to church multiplication, the authors emphasize the role of the missionary church planter. They offer helpful reflection on current trends and provide best practices gathered from research and empirical findings around the globe. The book takes up a number of special issues not addressed in most church planting books, such as use of short-term teams, partnerships, and wise use of resources. Full of case studies and real examples from around the world, this practical text will benefit students, church planters, missionaries, and missional church readers.

Author Biography

Craig Ott (PhD, Trinity Evangelical Divinity School) is associate professor of mission and intercultural studies at Trinity Evangelical Divinity School in Deerfield, Illinois, where he occupies the ReachGlobal Chair of Mission. He is the coauthor of Encountering Theology of Mission and coeditor of Globalizing Theology. Gene Wilson (DMin, Westminster Theological Seminary) is church planting director for ReachGlobal, the international mission of the Evangelical Free Church of America, and director of their annual Cross-Cultural Planting School. He served as a church planter in Canada for eighteen years and a church planting trainer and coach in Latin America and the Caribbean for eight years.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. vii
Preface	p. ix
Prologue: The Parable of the Apple Trees	p. xii
Biblical Foundations
The Task of Church Planting	p. 3
The Reasons for Church Planting	p. 19
New Testament Beginnings	p. 39
Strategic Considerations
Church Multiplication and Indigenous Church-Planting Movements	p. 65
Apostolic Church Planters	p. 89
The Shape of the Church	p. 107
Pioneer, Reproduction, and Regional Approaches to Church Planting	p. 127
Developmental Phases
The Developmental Phases of a Church Plant: An Overview	p. 155
Preparing, Part 1: Targeting and Commissioning	p. 167
Preparing, Part 2: Understanding and Strategizing	p. 185
Launching: Evangelism and Discipleship	p. 209
Establishing: Congregating and Maturing	p. 243
Structuring: Expanding and Empowering	p. 267
Reproducing: Strengthening and Sending	p. 287
Critical Factors
The Personal Life of Church Planters	p. 305
Church-Planting Teams	p. 329
Developing Servants, Leaders, and Planters	p. 349
Partnerships and Resources in Church Planting	p. 371
Planting Churches with Kingdom Impact	p. 395
Epilogue	p. 417
Works Cited	p. 419
Index	p. 442
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