Front Matters

Table of Contents

Welcome Letter . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 5

World Impact’s Strategy for Church Planting . . . . . . . 7

Preface: How to Use This Guidebook . . . . . . . . . 11

Introduction: Sacred Roots, Church Planting, and the Great Tradition . . . . 23

A Call to an Ancient Evangelical Future . . . . . . . . 29

Church Planting Models . . . . . . . . . . . . 33

On World Impact’s “Empowering the Urban Poor” . . . . . 36

Seminar 2: Church Planting Overview . . . . . . . . . . . . 42

What Is a Church? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

Summary of Key Cross-Cultural Church Planting Principles . . . 56