Top Ten Church Planting BooksResources for church planters:
Top Ten Church Planting Books
1. Purpose Driven Church, Rick Warren,1995, Zondervan. This is the best book written on the church in this generation.
2. Planting Growing Churches for the 21st Century, Aubrey Malphurs, second edition, Paperback 430 pages (1998) Baker Book House ISBN: 0801065143. The most complete and best organized book on church planting on the market.
3 Church Planting: Laying Foundations by Stuart Murray. Paperback: 288 pages Publisher: Herald Press (PA) (February 2001) ISNB: 083619148X. One of the few church planting books that addresses the theological issues of planting.
4. Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age, Ed Stetzer, 2003. Paperback: 365 pages Publisher: Broadman (June 2003). Excellent resource with lots of web references. 5. Church Planting Movements: How God is Redeeming a Lost World by David Garrison. Paperback ISBN: 0974756202. Every planter needs to read this book to see the awesome things God is doing in the world. Primarily a house church movement. 6. Organic Church: Growing Faith Where Life Happens by Neil Cole. Hardcover: 272 pages Publisher: Jossey-Bass (September 2005) ISBN: 078798129X. This is an American expression of the house church movement that is happening right now. 7. Rediscovering Church, Bill & Lynne Hybels, 1995, Zondervan. The first half of this book could be titled, "What not to do in church planting." Hardcover: 213 pages. Publisher: Zondervan (August 1995) Every planter needs to read the first half of the book for what not to do in church planting and the second half of the book for developing a mission that has withstood the test of time. 8. Starting High Definition Churches by Ron Sylvia. Paperback: 258 pages Publisher: High Definition Resources (May 2004) ISBN: 0975450905. This book details how to plant a purpose driven church. Ron conducts Purpose Driven Planting conferences.
9. Starting A New Church by Ralph Moore. Paperback: 244 pages. Publisher: Regal Books 2002. Anyone that has planted as many churches as Ralph Moore, must be read. 10. Church Planting Land Mines by Tom Nebel and Gary Rohemyer. Paperback: 140 pages Publisher: ChurchSmart Resources (2004) ISBN: 1889638501. It gives an excellent map as to where the church planting land mines are located.
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