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Confessions of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church (The Leadership Network Innovation)

Confessions of a Reformission Rev.: Hard Lessons from an Emerging Missional Church (The Leadership Network Innovation)

by Mark Driscoll

An inside snapshot view of the innovative Seattle church called Mars Hill and its Acts 29 network, providing--with a touch of sarcasm and humor--both principles and practices shared from the people actually doing missional church ministry with people often untouched by today’s traditional and contemporary churches.

Planting Missional Churches

by Ed Stetzer

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.

Planting Growing Churches for the 21st Century,: A Comprehensive Guide for New Churches and Those Desiring Renewal

Planting Growing Churches for the 21st Century,: A Comprehensive Guide for New Churches and Those Desiring Renewal

by Aubrey Malphurs

If the church is to thrive in the twenty-first century, it will have to take on a new form as it ministers to the 120 million unchurched people in the United States. Planting Growing Churches for the 21st Century is still virtually the only available text on church planting in North America and beyond. In this third edition, readers will find material on the importance of healthy, biblical change in our... (more)

Launch: Starting a New Church from Scratch

Launch: Starting a New Church from Scratch

by Nelson Searcy, Kerrick Thomas

Starting a church from scratch? Start here! This is no typical church planting or church growth book. The authors, both pastors at The Journey Church of the City in Manhattan, offer specific strategies for beginning a church from scratch, based on their own experiences in launching a church with no members, no money and no staff and watched membership skyrocket to more than a thousand people in three years! ... (more)

Vintage Jesus

Timeless Answers to Timely Questions

by Mark Driscoll, Gerry Breshears

This popular-level theology book introduces the person and work of Christ to those who are seeking answers to some of their most basic-and pivotal-questions. Some two thousand years after he walked the earth, Jesus Christ is still a hot topic. And for all the ridiculous, twisted, Da Vinci Code -esque conspiracy theories and lies about Jesus that have permeated popular culture and even the academy over... (more)

Total Church

by Tim Chester

Two pastors outline and apply a pair of overarching biblical principles that call the current body of Christ to a deep restructuring of its life and mission. "Church is not a meeting you attend or a place you enter," write pastors Tim Chester and Steve Timmis. "It's an identity that is ours in Christ. An identity that shapes the whole of life so that life and mission become 'total church.'" With that as... (more)

There's a Sheep in my Bathtub

by Brian Hogan

What happens when you drop an American family with three small children into the post-Communist chaos of Outer Mongolia? There's a Sheep in my Bathtub chronicles the adventures of the Hogan family as they try to follow God's leading into one of the world's most remote and mysterious enclaves. Disarmingly honest and charmingly humorous, their tale will thrill you and bring tears to your eyes. An intensely personal... (more)

Siberian Shivers

by William N. Harris

Bill Harris finds lots to laugh about, sharing his adventures in Siberia. Recounting his cross-cultural predicaments, he offers wise counsel (learned the hard way). Culturally insightful, ironically funny, and loaded with imaginatively told true stories -- SIBERIAN SHIVERS is best read aloud (though not in public!). On the other hand, being stared at is good preparation for life overseas...

What Is a Healthy Church Member? (Ixmarks)

What Is a Healthy Church Member? (Ixmarks)

by Thabiti M. Anyabwile

Biblically and practically instructs church members in ways they can labor for the health of their church. What Is a Healthy Church Member? takes its cue from Mark Dever's recent book, What Is a Healthy Church? , which offered one definition of what a healthy church looks like biblically and historically. In this new work, pastor Thabiti Anyabwile attempts to answer the natural next question: "What... (more)

Let the Nations Be Glad (Unabridged)

by John Piper

Since its publication a decade ago, Let the Nations Be Glad! has provided thousands of seminary students, missionaries, and pastors with a sound theological foundation for missions. Piper now offers a revised and expanded edition of this theological and biblical defense of God's supremacy in all things. Drawing on texts from the Old and New Testaments, Piper demonstrates that worship is the ultimate goal of... (more)

Companion to the Poor: Christ in the Urban Slums

Companion to the Poor: Christ in the Urban Slums

by Viv Grigg

Viv Grigg challenges us to reexamine our strategies and design new approaches that will build Christ's kingdom among the poor—who comprise nearly half the world.

The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21 Century Church

The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21 Century Church

by Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch

Christendom is dying and needs to be removed from its life-support system. Starting with this frank assessment of the current church, Michael Frost and Alan Hirsch present an alternative model for ministry in todayÂ’s postmodern world. Instead of mourning the demise of the Western church as the center of society, the authors explain how the church can be reborn through incarnational mission, messianic... (more)

The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church

The Forgotten Ways: Reactivating the Missional Church

by Alan Hirsch

Alan Hirsch is convinced that the inherited formulas for growing the Body of Christ do not work anymore. And rather than relying on slightly revised solutions from the past, he sees a vision of the future growth of the church coming about by harnessing the power of the early church, which grew from as few as 25,000 adherents in AD 100 to up to 20 million in AD 310. Such incredible growth is also being experienced... (more)

The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church: And the Causes That Kinder It

The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church: And the Causes That Kinder It

by Roland Allen

The Radical Reformission: Reaching Out without Selling Out

The Radical Reformission: Reaching Out without Selling Out

by Mark Driscoll

Reformation is the continual reforming of the mission of the church to enhance God’s command to reach out to others in a way that acknowledges the unique times and locations of daily life.

Starting a New Church: The Church Planter's Guide to Success

Starting a New Church: The Church Planter's Guide to Success

by Ralph Moore

Ralph Moore maintains that perhaps our greatest responsibility is to evangelize our own generation-and that established churches are unable to do that. In fact, rising generations of Americans live in ignorance of Jesus Christ and have no moral absolutes. The answer, according to Moore, is aggressive church planting. Why? Because new churches focus on the needs of each new generation and present biblical truth... (more)

The Relevant Church: A New Vision For Communities Of Faith

The Relevant Church: A New Vision For Communities Of Faith

by Mike Howerton

Studies show twentysomethings are the least likely to attend church. So where do God-hungry twentysomethings go to worship? New communities of faith are popping up around the country and are challenging the traditional church model. The Relevant Church shares individual ideas and stories of churches that are engaging a new generation with passionate worship and a life-changing message, all while they impact their... (more)

Missionary Methods: St. Paul's or Ours?

by Roland Allen

This classic study of Paul's missionary work focuses not on the apostle's doctrine or character but on the method by which he accomplished his task. Throughout, Allen compares Paul's methods to modern missionary methods; he concludes by suggesting some ways the apostolic method might be usefully employed today.

The Church Comes Home: Building Community and Mission through Home Churches

The Church Comes Home: Building Community and Mission through Home Churches

by Robert J. Banks

In our modern dislocated society many are searching for a church experience that offers true Christian sharing, nurturing, and discipleship, in addition to teaching and worship. For many such people the answer is found in the home church: a small, committed group of often diverse people who meet together in homes to pray, eat, sing, study, and share their lives. The Church Comes Home is a handbook for those... (more)

A Primer on Postmodernism

by Stanley J. Grenz

Grenz examines the topography of postmodernism, a phenomenon everyone acknowledges, but has difficulty describing with precision. Of particular significance is his discussion of the challenges this cultural shift presents to the church.

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by Mark Driscoll

by Ed Stetzer

by Aubrey Malphurs

by Nelson Searcy, Kerrick Thomas

Timeless Answers to Timely Questions

by Mark Driscoll, Gerry Breshears

by Tim Chester

by Brian Hogan

by William N. Harris

by Thabiti M. Anyabwile

by John Piper

by Viv Grigg

by Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch

by Alan Hirsch

by Roland Allen

by Mark Driscoll

by Ralph Moore

by Mike Howerton

by Roland Allen

by Robert J. Banks

by Stanley J. Grenz