Church Planting Resources

By
Jason Robertson
Posted in: Book Reviews, Church Planting

Highly Recommended

Childers, Steven L.,

  • 2006     Church Planter Training Manual: A Gospel-Centered Approach. Orlando, FL: Global Church Advancement, Inc.

Keller, Timothy and Allen Thompson,

  • 2002     Church Planter Manual: A Church Multiplication Handbook (Center-City Church Planting). New York: Redeemer Church Planting Center.

Lovelace, Richard,

  • 1985     Renewal as a Way of Life. Downers Grove, IL: Intervarsity Press.

Miller, John C..

  • 1999     Outgrowing the Ingrown Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.

Schwarz, Christian,

  • 1996     Natural Church Development.  Carol-Stream, IL: Church Smart Resources.

Stetzer, Ed.,

  • 2006       Planting Missional Churches. Nashville: B&H Publishing Group.

Recommended

Biehl, Bobb and Glen Urquhart

  • 1990    Mentoring: How to Find a Mentor. How to Become One. Laguna Niguel, CA: Masterplanning Group International.
  • Bosch, David J.
  • 1994     Transforming Mission: Paradigm Shifts in the Theology of Mission. Maryknoll: Orbis.

Church Multiplication Training Center

  • 2002     Get Ready! Get Set! Go! CMTC Bootcamp & Restart Training Manuals, Ft. Wayne, IN: CMTC.

Clowney, Edmund.

  • 1995     Church: Contours of Christian Theology. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity.

Conn, Harvie M. (ed.)

  • 1996     Planting and Growing Urban Churches: From Dream to Reality.  Grand Rapids, MI Baker Book House.

Cordeiro, Wayne

  • 2001     Doing Church as a Team. Ventura, CA: Regal Books.

Covey, Stephen R., (A. Roger Merrill)

  • 1992     Seven Habits of Highly Effective People.
  • 1996     First Things First. New York: Simon and Schuster.

Erickson, Millard J.

  • 1998     Postmodernizing the Faith: Evangelical Responses to the Challenge of Postmodernism. Baker Book House.

Finzel, Hans

  • 1994     The Top Ten Mistakes Leaders Make.  New York: Simon and Schuster.

Garrison, David

  • 2004     Church Planting Movements booklet (condensed version). International Mission Board (Southern Baptist, – imb.org).
  • 2004     Church Planting Movements booklet (in-depth version). Bangalore: WIGtake Resources (Southern Baptist, – imb.org).

Gibbs, Eddie

  • 2000     Church Next: Quantum Changes in How We Do Ministry. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.

Green, Michael

  • 2002     30 Years that Changed the World. Downers Grove, IL: InterVarsity Press.

Greenway, Roger S.

  • 1973     Urban Evangelism in Latin America.  Philadelphia: Westminster Press.
  • 1976     Guidelines for Urban Church Planting. Grand Rapids, MI:  Baker Book House.
  • 1979     Discipling the City. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House.
  • 2000     Cities: Missions’ New Frontier (2nd Edition). Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House.

Guder, Darrel L.

  • 1998     Missional Church. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans Publishers.

Guder, Darrell L., et. al. (eds.)

  • 1998     Missional Church: A Vision of the Sending of the Church in North America. Grand Rapids, MI: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company

Hesselgrave, David J.

  • 2000     Planting Churches Cross-Culturally: North America and Beyond, 2nd ed.. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Book House.

Hiebert, Paul G.

  • 1985     Anthropological Insights for Missionaries. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker.
  • 1995     Incarnational Ministry:

Hunter, George

  • 2000     The Celtic Way of Evangelism: How Christianity Can Reach the West . …. Again. Abingdon.

Hughes, Kent and Barbara

  • 1997     Liberating Ministry from the Success Syndrome. Wheaton, IL: Tyndale House Publishers, Inc.

Logan, Robert E. (Steven L. Ogne) (Neil Cole)

  • 1989     Beyond Church Growth.  Old Tappan, NJ:  Fleming H.  Revell Co.
  • 1995     Church Planter’s Toolkit. ChurchSmart Resources (www.churchsmart.com)
  • 1995     Churches Planting Churches. ChurchSmart Resources (www.churchsmart.com)
  • 1995     Raising Leaders for the Harvest. ChurchSmart Resources (www.churchsmart.com)

Macchia, Stephan A.

  • 1999     Becoming a Healthy Church: 10 Characteristics. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.

Miller, Darrow

  • 1984     Discipling Nations: The Power of Truth to Transform Cultures. Seattle, WA: Ywam Publishing.

Moore, Ralph

  • 2002       Starting a New Church: The Church Planter’s Guide to Success. Ventura, CA: Regal Books

Nebel, Tom

  • 2002     Big Dreams in Small Places: Church Planting in Smaller Communities. St Charles, IL: ChurchSmart Resources.

Newbigin, Lesslie

  • 1989     The Gospel in a Pluralistic Society. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.
  • 1995     The Open Secret: Introduction to a Theology of Missions. Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans.

Pope, Randy

  • 2002     The Prevailing Church. Chicago, IL: Moody.

Reeder, Harry

  • 2004     From Embers to a Flame. Phillipsburg, NJ: P & R Publishing

Sande, Ken

  • 1997     The Peacemaker: A Biblical Guide to Resolving Personal Conflict. Grand Rapids, MI: Baker Books.

Schaller, Lyle E.

  • 1990     Forty-Four Questions for Church Planters. Nashville, TN: Abingdon.

Shenk, David W. and Ervin R. Stutzman

  • 1988     Creating Communities of the Kingdom: New Testament Models of Church Planting. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press.

Stetzer, Ed and David Putman

  • 2006       Breaking the Missional Code. Nashville: B&H Publishing Group.

Stetzer, Ed and Eric Ramsey

  • 2005       Strategic Outreach. San Diego: Outreach Publishing, 2005.

Sylvia, Ron

  • 2006       Starting New Churches on Purpose. Ocala, FL: PD Planting.

Towns, Elmer and Ed Stetzer

  • 2004      Perimeters of Light: Biblical Boundaries for the Emerging Church. Chicago: Moody.

Walling, Terry B. and Rick Tansey

  • 2003     Maximum Health: Navigating Your Church to Greater Health. ChurchSmart Resources (www.churchsmart.com)

Walling, Terry B.

  • 2002     Advancing Leaders: Discovering Your Ultimate Contribution. ChurchSmart Resources (www.churchsmart.com)
  • 1999     Focused Living Resource Kit. ChurchSmart Resources (www.churchsmart.com)

Wagner, C. Peter

  • 1990     Church Planting for A Greater Harvest. Ventura, CA: Regal Books.

Warren, Rick,

  • 1995     The Purpose Driven Church.  Grand Rapids, MI: Zondervan.

Winter, Ralph D. and Steven C. Hawthrone.

  • 1992     Perspectives on the World Christian Movement. Pasadena, CA: William Carey Library.

About the Author

Jason Robertson is a husband and a father and a pastor. He is dedicated to leading and equipping his the Church with God’s word and biblical theology for life ministry, using a combination of pastoral, church planting and evangelism experience. He holds a Master of Divinity from New Orleans Baptist Theological Seminary. He is experienced in church planting, evangelism, missions, and the training of pastors and Bible teachers. Jason has been preaching the gospel since 1985, serving the first ten years of ministry as a Southern Baptist itinerant evangelist out of Milldale Baptist Church in Zachary, LA which ordained him in 1993. He has preached in hundreds of churches in over 30 States and 4 countries. He planted churches in Siberia, Russia in the summers of 1993 and 1994. He founded Murrieta Valley Church in California, which he planted in cooperation with the SBC NAMB in 2001. He also teaches ministry students at California Baptist University. You can hear his sermons and read his manuscripts on sermonaudio.com. Just follow the link to "sermons" at the top of this page.