The Honest Guide to Church Planting
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The Honest Guide to Church Planting

What No One Ever Tells You about Planting and Leading a New Church

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The Honest Guide to Church Planting

What No One Ever Tells You about Planting and Leading a New Church

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About This Book

Church planting has become a cottage industry. National conferences, hip planting organizations, and all-in-one resource kits celebrate the thrill of pioneering a church and inspire visions of glorious victories. Yet few who respond to the call are warned what they'll actually encounter: the relentless opposition they'll endure; the eventual scattering of their entire core group; the failure of their tried-and-true, field-tested system.

Here's the dirty little secret of church planting: the roadside is strewn with casualties. Many have closed their churches. Some left ministry permanently. Others abandoned the faith altogether.

Church planting is at once the greatest and most grueling ministry work on earth. This book is for those toiling in the trenches, those about to bail out, and those considering jumping in. It's for the church planters laboring and struggling, seeing little movement, and wondering what they're doing wrong or why God is failing them. It's also for mother churches, planting organizations, and denominations, as a challenge to rethink and re-calibrate the way they approach and measure planting endeavors.

The Honest Guide to Church Planting is a fresh and candid conversation about the challenges and joys of planting new churches. Tom Bennardo speaks the truth so that those involved in church planting can embrace a more accurate and realistic picture of what planting a church is really like; one that not only enables them to survive, but to thrive in this wondrous work.

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Publisher
Zondervan
Year
2019
ISBN
9780310101000
Topic
Theology & Religion
Subtopic
Christian Church

Table of contents

  1. Cover Page
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Contents
  6. Foreword By Larry Osborne
  7. Introduction
  8. 1. The Truth About You
  9. 2. The Truth About “Proven” Methods
  10. 3. The Truth About Getting “Butts In Seats”
  11. 4. The Truth About Core Groups and Launch Teams
  12. 5. The Truth About the Back Door
  13. 6. The Truth About “Lottery Winners”
  14. 7. The Truth About Pace
  15. 8. The Truth About “Church Multiplication Movements”
  16. 9. The Truth About How You’re Viewed
  17. 10. The Truth About “Excellence”
  18. 11. The Truth About Leadership
  19. 12. The Truth About God’s Ultimate Plan for Your Church
  20. Epilogue
  21. Acknowledgments
  22. Notes
  23. About the Author