The Evangel Dean Basic Training Resource Handbook

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Comiskey has written more than twenty-five books on cell churches (two noted below). His dissertation (available for free online) was on cell churches in Latin America and a number of his books are available in both Spanish and English. He currently teaches church planting at Tozer Seminary and consults with church plant groups interested in the cell church model. This bibliography lists 81 books he recommends on cell churches. He ranks them in the order he recommends that a cell church planter to read them. Joel Comiskey. 2000 Years of Small Groups: A History of Cell Ministry in the Church . Moreno, CA: CCS Publishing, 2014. Joel Comiskey. Biblical Foundations for the Cell-Based Church: New Testament Insights for the 21st Century Church. Moreno, CA: CCS Publishing, 2012. Randy Frazee and Max Lucado. The Connecting Church 2.0: Beyond Small Groups to Authentic Community. Grand Rapids: Zondervan, 2013. This book is not designed exclusively for small churches, but it describes the impact a small group of committed believers can have when they focus on single geographical area. This is an important book for those wrestling with the incarnational aspect of church planting.

David Garrison. Church Planting Movements: How God Is Redeeming a Lost World. Midlothian, VA: WIGTake, 2004.

An important book for those seeking to understand church plant movements. This is the core textbook for TUMI’s course on church plant movements.

Michael Green. Church without Walls: A Global Examination of the Cell Church. Waynesboro, GA: Paternoster, 2002.

Joel Comiskey ranks this as the most important book on the “Small Church.” Michael Green has been writing on evangelism for more than fifty years, his early book Evangelism in the Early Church is a seminal book.