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xii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm 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. -- 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. Ed Stetzer. "This book revises Planting new churches in a postmodern age (Broadman & Holman, 2003)"--Preliminary page. Includes bibliographical references and index. Church growth Church development, New BV652.25 .S83 2006 254.1 S841P 0805443703 9780805443707 RFT 060508 20181108124144.0 68457513 eng