Planting New Churches in a Post-modern Age

Planting New Churches in a Post-modern Age

Author Information

Ed Stetzer, Ph.D. has planted churches in New York and Pennsylvania. He has taught church planters over the United States and on five continents. A previous seminary lecturer, he actually directs the Nehemiah Project of the North American Mission Board, assisting employ and train church planters

Content Summary

Planting New Churches in a Post-modern Age is a publication in writing by Dr. Ed Stetzer about the new benchmark in church planting. In this publication, Stetzer recounts the significance of church planters and the diverse values of planting productive churches. Leonard Sweet states in the further part titled “The Mastery of Space and Place” that this publication is a marvellous asset that makes these two inquiries “Who are you?” and “Where are you?” contain hands. Stetzer locations much focus on recognising the church planters and correctly equipping them for their ministry. He extends to recount church planting as a method of beginning new churches or congregations. Although church planting is not a new notion, there is habitually room for enhancement because teaching in church planting values is rather incomplete. As the world alterations, church planters have to acclimatize and realise the diverse heritage in alignment to be adept use good and missiological church planting values that will absolutely lead to large and productive churches. The reason of this publication is to correctly equip its readers to better engage in the task of church planting in the post-modern world while conceiving out-of-doors of the methodological carton and yet stay trustworthy to the realities of the Scripture. The publication is fundamentally a direction manual that educates its readers the required values to plant biblically trustworthy and heritage applicable churches.

In alignment for Stetzer to effectively interpret these rudimentary church planting values in a functional dimensions publication, he splits up the publication into six foremost parts: Basics of Church Planting, Basics of New Church Life, Understanding Cultures and Models, Church Planting Nuts and Bolts, Starting Off Right, and Making it Official. Each one of these foremost components of the publication is farther split up into subsections or sections that cover these values in much larger details. Stetzer renders some of these rudimentary components of church planting much simpler to realise and request in a certainly altering world. His outlooks supply functional guidance with a missional comprehending of church planting. Let's take a loser gaze at each one of these cited parts in alignment to completely realise the author's views.

In the first part of the publication called “Basics of Church Planting,” Stetzer interprets his first know-how as a church planter. Although the church increased and persons altered by the power of the Holy Spirit, it did not come to the anticipated grade of achievement due to little know-how and teaching in church planting. Planting churches is hard work and there are obstacles for example large church mentality, parish church mindset, expert church syndrome, release the perishing syndrome, and currently come to myth to overwhelm in ...