On This Rock - A Church Planting Sampler

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Table of Contents	3
Introduction	7
Church Planting Overview	11
World Impact's Strategy for Church Planting	13
Preface: How to Use This Guidebook	17
Seeing the Big Picture (graphic)	29
Session 1: Seeing the Big Picture - Themes and Objectives	30
What Is a Church?	32
Church Planting Overview	35
Session 2: Prepare - Themes and Objectives	44
Overview of Exercise Phases for World Impact's Evangel School of Urban Church Planting	46
Cross-Cultural Church Planting Principles	48
Theology of Culture and the Poor	49
On World Impact's "Empowering the Urban Poor"	51
Our Distinctive: Advancing the Kingdom among the Urban Poor	57
Interaction of Class, Culture, and Race	65
Targeting Unreached Groups in Churched Neighborhoods	66
The SIAFU Network - Assebling God's Warriors	67
The Great Tradition and Creedal Theology	73
The Story of God: Our Sacred Roots	75
There Is a River: Identifying the Streams of a Revitalized Authentic Christian Community in the City	76
Substitute Centers to a Christ-Centered Vision: Goods and Effects Which Our Culture Substitutes as the Ultimate Concern	77
The Picture and the Drama: Image and Story in the Recovery of Biblical Myth	78
From Before to Beyond Time: The Plan of God and Human History	79
The Theology of Christus Victor: A Christ-Centered Biblical Motif for Integrating and Renewing the Urban Church	80
Christus Victor: An Integrated Vision for the Christian Life and Witness	81
Church Planting Models and Strategies	83
Using Wisdom in Ministry: The PWR Process	85
Davis's Project Gauntlet: The Dirty Dozen Criteria for New Initiatives	95
Researching Your Community	97
Church Planting Models	110
Membership Commissioning Service: Anyname Fellowship Church	113
Church Planting Movements	115
Introduction: Sacred Roots, Church Planting, and the Great Tradition	117
The Nature of Dynamic Church Planting Movements: Defining the Elements of Effective Church Planting Movements	123
Creating Choherent Urban Church Planting Movements: Discerning the Elements of Authentic Urban Christian Community	124
The Threefold Cord of Urban Cross-Cultural Church Planting Movements	125
A Model of an Urban Church Association	126
Church Planting Roles and Responsibilities	127
Responsibilities of a Church Plant Team Leader	129
Forming the Church Plant Team and Understanding the Roles	130
Key Roles of a Church Planting Team	134
Responsibilities of a Coach (Multiple Team Leader)	135
Equipping the Church Plant Team Member: Developing Workable Training Strategies	136
Empowering Indigenous Leadership	137
Investment, Empowerment, and Assessment: How Leadership as Representation Provides Freedom to Innovate	139
Nurturing Authentic Christian Leadership	140
Summary of the Capstone Curriculum	141
Fit to Represent: Multiplying Disciples of the Kingdom of God	148
Discipling the Faithful: Establishing Leaders for the Urban Church	149
Understanding Leadership as Representation: The Six Stages of Formal Proxy	150
Overview of TUMI's Resources on the Urban Poor	151
An Abridged Church Planting Bibliography	161
Appendix: World Impact's Church Planting Resources at a Glance	167
Table of Contents: Ripe for Harvest	169
Table of Contents: Planting Churches among the City's Poor, Volume 1	174
Table of Contents: Planting Churches among the City's Poor, Volume 2	180
Prologue: Planting Churches among the City's Poor, Volumes 1 and 2	185
Table of Contents: The Evangel Dean Handbook	192
Back Cover	196

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