"This book revises Planting new churches in a postmodern age (Broadman & Holman, 2003)"--Preliminary page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Basics of church planting -- Redeveloping a missional mind-set for North America -- The biblical basis of church planting -- Models of church plants and church planters -- What makes a church planter? -- Church structure -- Planter-pastor leadership issues -- Involving lay leaders -- Understanding cultures and models -- Church planting in emerging culture -- Choosing a focus group -- A church-planting fault line -- Missional/incarnational churches -- Koinos churches -- Evangelism in church planting -- Developing a launch team -- Small groups -- Finding and handling finances -- Choosing a name and logo -- Finding a meeting place -- The launch : birth of a new church -- Worship in the new church -- Preaching in the new church -- Spiritual formation in the new church -- Growth in the new church -- Children in the new church -- Congregational formation -- Churches planting churches -- Breaking the mold : church-planting movement notes.

Planting Missional Churches is an instruction book for planting biblically faithful and culturally relevant churches. It addresses the "how-to" and "why" issues of church planting by providing practical guidance through all the phases of a church plant while taking a missional look at existing and emerging cultures. -- Publisher description.