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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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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