Other Books by ED stetzer
Breaking the Missional Code
Across North America, many pastors are excited to see churches growing as they achieve their mission to connect the message of the gospel with the community at large. Still others are equally frustrated, following the exact same model for outreach but with lesser results. Indeed, just because a “missional breakthrough” occurs in one place doesn’t mean it will happen the same way elsewhere.
One size does not fit all, but there are cultural codes that must be broken for all churches to grow and remain effective in their specific mission context. Breaking the Missional Code provides expert insight on church culture and church vision casting, plus case studies of successful missional churches impacting their communities.
“We have to recognize there are cultural barriers (in addition to spiritual ones) that blind people from understanding the gospel,” the authors write. “Our task is to find the right way to break through those cultural barriers without removing the spiritual and theological ones.”
Planting Missional Churches
Planting Missional Churches is an instruction book for planting biblically faithful and culturally relevant churches. It addresses the “how-to” and “why” issues of church planting by providing practical guidance through all the phases of a church plant while taking a missional look at existing and emerging cultures.
Rick Warren says, “Ed Stetzer is on of the best informed, practical minded, and field-tested church planters that I know.”
Missional implies taking the methods of a missionary--being indigenous to the culture, seeking to understand and learn, adapting to the mission field--but planting the biblical form of the church.
Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age
Len Sweet talks about Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age as that “one-stop, one-shop wonder that makes obsolete all the alternatives.”
In this book, Ed Stetzer lays out a case for missional church planting and then describes the process to plant healthy new churches. He combines the theological and the practical in one book. The book looks at cultures and how to reach persons in those cultures through the tools within the cultures themselves. It also provides a new look at emerging trends in churches reaching postmoderns. Then, it provides step by step instructions about how to plant churches in today’s world.
Sections include “Basics of Church Planting,” which explores the biblical and theological basis for planting, “Church Planting Nuts and Bolts” which provides those essential practical tools, and “Understanding Cultures and Models,” which provides fresh insights into reaching unchurched people.
Solid experience (from Stetzer and dozens of examples), Biblical roots, and fresh insights into the postmodern world make this a must read for the church planting hoping to make an impact.