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The Y-B-H handbook of church planting : a practical guide to church planting (yes, but how?)

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
Print Book, English, ©2005
Xulon Press, [Longwood, Fla.], ©2005
Handbook
xix, 656 pages ; 24 cm
9781597811040, 9791597811032, 9781597811033, 1597811041, 1597811033
61332645
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!
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