Missions

October 15, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Grace Baptist Church of Cape Coral, Florida (pastored by Tom Ascol) shares on its website the following list of recommended books on Missions.

  • Let the Nations Be Glad! The Supremacy of God in Missions by John Piper
  • The Mission of God by Christopher J.H. Wright
  • Perspectives on the World Christian Movement: A Reader by Ralph Winter and Steven Hawthorne (eds.)
  • Salvation to the Ends of the Earth: A Biblical Theology of Mission by Andreas Kostenberger and Peter O’Brien
  • A Vision for Missions by Tom Wells
  • Paradigms in Conflict: 10 Key Questions in Christian Missions Today by David Hesselgrave
  • The Church Is Bigger Than You Think: The Unfinished Work of World Evangelisation by Patrick Johnstone
  • Announcing the Kingdom: The Story of God’s Mission in the Bible by Arthur Glasser
  • Mission on the Way: Issues in Mission Theology by Charles Van Engem
  • The Open Secret: An Introdution to the Theology of Mission by Lesslie Newbigin
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Church Planting

October 10, 2009 By admin Leave a Comment

Grace Baptist Church of Cape Coral, Florida (pastored by Tom Ascol) shares on its website the following list of recommended books on Church Planting

  • Redeemer Church Planting Manual by Timothy Keller and J. Allen Thompson
  • Planting Missional Churches by Ed Stetzer
  • Planting Churches Cross-Culturally: North America and Beyond by David Hesselgrave
  • Planting Growing Churches by Aubrey Malphurs
  • Confessions of a Reformission Rev. by Mark Driscoll
  • Beyond Church Growth by Bob Logan
  • Church Planter’s Toolkit by Bob Logan and Steve Ogne
  • Spin-Off Churches: How One Church Successfully Plants Another by Rodney Harrison, Tom Cheyney, and Don Overstreet
  • Starting a New Church: The Church Planter’s Guide to Success by Ralph Moore
  • Church Planting Landmines by Gary Rohrmayer and Tom Nebel
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Healthy Church Members

July 13, 2008 By testertwo Leave a Comment

What Is a Healthy Church Member?

What Is a Healthy Church Member?
Thabiti M. Anabwile

List: $12.99 … WTS $9.74

“This book provides an excellent and much-needed focus on the individual church member.”
R. C. Sproul, Ligonier Ministries

“Given the state of so many of our churches today, this book arrives not a moment too soon.”
R. Albert Mohler, President, Southern Baptist Theological Seminary

Read the Series Preface, Introduction & Mark 1 (PDF)

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Church Growth and Church Planting

May 17, 2007 By testertwo Leave a Comment

The following books were used during the 2006-2007 academic year at Westminster Theological Seminary, in the course on Church Growth and Church Planting taught by Manuel Ortiz, Professor of Practical Theology, Emeritus, and Susan Baker, Adjunct Professor of Practical Theology:



From the seminary catalog:

Church Growth and Church Planting

Purpose:
• To provide the student with various aspects of church growth methods, principles, and practices
• To review a brief history of the School of Church Growth
• To evaluate church growth principles and practices in order to become better equipped in the area of church growth ministries
• To develop skills in relationship to growing a church

Topics covered include church growth philosophy, history of church growth, organic church growth, theological presuppositions, critique of church growth, review of various urban models of church growth, and signs and wonders as a means to growth.

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Evangelism and Church Growth book recommendations

April 24, 2007 By testertwo Leave a Comment

Danny Akin, President of Southeastern Baptist Theological Seminary, has recommended the following books on Evangelism and Church Growth.

Abraham, William J. The Logic of Evangelism. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1989.

Coleman, Robert E. The Master Plan of Evangelism. rev. ed. Grand Rapids: Revell, 1993.

Green, Michael. Evangelism in the Early Church. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1970.

Little, Paul E. How to Give Away Your Faith. Downers Grove: IVP, 1966.

Malphurs, Aubrey. Planting Growing Churches for the 21st Century. Grand Rapids: Baker, 1992.

McGavran, Donald. Understanding Church Growth. 3rd ed., rev. and ed. by Peter Wagner. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1990.

Packer, J.I. Evangelism and the Sovereignity of God. Downers Grove: IVP, 1961.

Rainer, Thom S. The Book of Church Growth: History, Theology, and Principles. Nashville: Broadman, 1993.

_______. Effective Evangelistic Churches. Nashville: Broadman, 1996.

_______. Suprising Insights from the Unchurched and Proven Ways to Reach Them. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2001.

_______. The Unchurched Next Door. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2003.

_______. Good to Great Churches. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2004.

Reid, Alvin. Introduction to Evangelism. Nashville: Broadman & Holman, 1998.

_______. Radically Unchurched: Who They Are and How to Reach Them. Grand Rapids: Kregel, 2002.

Streett, R. Alan. The Effective Invitation. Old Tappan, NJ: Revell, 1984.

Wagner, C. Peter. Church Growth and the Whole Gospel: A Biblical Mandate. San Francisco: Harper, 1981.

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