Church PLANT Manual

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process, with a focus on prayer, reflection, and wisdom to find God’s unique call on each planter and team. Filled with devotionals, seminars, exercises, and worksheets, with dozens of graphics, diagrams, and articles, this rich resource will empower church planting teams to design a strategy that will prove empowering to them. It can enable them to draft a course that is consistent with the vision God has given them to plant a healthy, Kingdom-declaring church, and launch movements that display the justice of the Kingdom among the oppressed. We are excited about both the interest and activity of many churches and denominations to establish outposts of the Kingdom in the neediest communities in our nation. Our prayer is that this resource contributes to that vision. Planting Churches a mong the Cit y ’ s Poor: An Anthology of Urban Church Planting Resources, Volume One: Theological and Missiological Perspectives for Church Planters Volume One contains a range of materials related to the whys and wherefores of a biblical theology of mission and church planting, especially how that theology touches upon urban missions, church planting, and the development of healthy congregations and movements. In this collection you will find our formative, seminal essay on urban church planting which served as the foundational biblical and theological piece which informed our initial forays into church planting among the poor in the city. It also includes Theological and Missiological Principles and Insights providing a treasure of resources related to urban missions, ministry among the poor and oppressed, and church planting, including biblical theologies of the Church, retrieval of the Great Tradition among churches which serve the poor, and the role of color, class, and race in making disciples in underserved communities. In addition, the resources contains material related to the theory and practice of