Ready, Set, Plant: The Why and How of Starting New Churches

Ready, Set, Plant: The Why and How of Starting New Churches

Ready, Set, Plant: The Why and How of Starting New Churches

Ready, Set, Plant: The Why and How of Starting New Churches

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Overview

When one reads through the New Testament, it's evident that the practice of planting churches began two thousand years ago. Today's culture, community, and connections differ greatly from the churches Peter and Paul helped build. Even in the past 20 years, those factors have dramatically changed the ministry of church planting.

In Ready, Set, Plant Bener Agtarap and Curtis Brown provide tools for planting churches—looking at the spiritual, social, and economic aspects of the process. Creating new church bodies requires redefining priorities and practices. Yet one thing that never changes is that the mission must be God's mission.

Ready, Set, Plant raises questions about church planting that every new church community must address: Why? Who? How? What? Where? When? Agtarap and Brown provide a broad range of answers to each question. By examining these questions and various answers, church planters will be equipped to fulfill their divine call to make disciples and transform the world.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780881779486
Publisher: Upper Room Books
Publication date: 05/01/2021
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 160
File size: 948 KB

About the Author

Rev. Dr. Bener Baysa Agtarap is an ordained elder in the California-Nevada Annual Conference of The United Methodist Church. Bener’s experience of over 30 years has established him as a seasoned church planter, mentor, and disciple-making movement leader. He is executive director, Community Engagement&Church Planting/ Path1, and director, Connectional Mobilization at Discipleship Ministries of The United Methodist Church.
Rev. Dr. Curtis Brown equips and mentors lay and clergy leaders in churches and other religious organizations. Curtis is a trainer for The United Methodist Church in new church systems and organization, innovative forms of Christian community, fundraising, congregational renewal, and developing entrepreneurial ministry leaders. He serves as director of connectional ministries for the Illinois Great Rivers Conference of the UMC.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments 9

1 Introduction to Planting 11

2 Why Plant? 21

3 Why Leads to Who 32

4 Who Is a Planter? 41

5 Who Leads to How 56

6 How Are Churches Planted? 65

7 How Leads to What 79

8 What Is a New Faith Community? 88

9 What Leads to Where 104

10 Where to Plant? 116

11 Where Leads to When 137

12 When Do We Start? 148

Notes 159

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