Church Planting

Church: Growth and Culture.

The title of this book Church: Growth and Culture reflects the influence of the two modern ecclesiastical movements to which we have referred. The purpose of this book is to examine biblical principles on which church growth is based, and to analyze factors that will help national leaders, pastors, and laity to contextualize their methodology so that the ministry of their churches has true relevance in their socio-cultural context.

A manual that helps people to use the concepts of the book to design a contextualized church planting strategy.

In this book, the author seeks to answer the question, what do people with a Hispanic heritage and Roman Catholic background need to learn from the Bible, after they receive Jesus Christ as Savior, to become a committed disciple?

In the challenge of this new Apostolic Age, this book, Starting Reproducing Congregations, Second Edition presents an expanded and updated discussion of biblically sound principles, logically developed procedures, culturally appropriate means, and innovative, practical methodologies that can enable church starters to design effective strategies to start and multiply congregations in the USA and around the world.

O objetivo deste livro é examinar os princípios bíblicos nos quais se baseia o crescimento da igreja e analisar fatores que ajudarão os líderes nacionais, pastores e leigos a contextualizar a sua metodologia para que o ministério das suas igrejas tenha verdadeira relevância no seu contexto sociocultural.

The explosive growth and rapid expansion of the Hispanic
population is transforming the social, economic, and religious panorama
of America. Hispanic Americans are now the largest minority group in
America and are projected to comprise one fourth of the American
population by the year 2050. According to a the latest Census Bureau
report, “the U.S. Hispanic population passed the 42 million mark and
accounted for half of the growth of the US population since 2000,
indicating that the nation’s largest minority group is increasing its
presence even faster than in the previous decade.”
This book analyzes these realities and explores their implications for
leading Hispanics to a personal experience of salvation in Jesus Christ,
establishing biblically sound, culturally relevant, reproducing congregations
among them, enabling these congregations to
experience healthy growth and meaningful ministry
in their communities, and encouraging them to
participate in the implementation of the Great
Commission by sending Hispanic missionaries to
highly strategic parts of the world.

En este libro, el autor busca responder la pregunta: ¿qué necesitan aprender de la Biblia las personas de herencia hispana y trasfondo católico romano, después de recibir a Jesucristo como Salvador, para convertirse en discípulos comprometidos? Al utilizar un enfoque catecístico de preguntas y respuestas, este libro analizará los dogmas católicos que se basan en tradiciones y no en las Escrituras. El objetivo de este libro es involucrar a los hispanos en un discipulado centrado bíblicamente y contextualizado culturalmente que les permita ser miembros bien informados y espiritualmente activos de una iglesia que honra al Señor y sigue Sus enseñanzas.

Bible Storying for Church Planting by three authors who have long experience in both Bible Storying and church starting is a guide for using the methods of Bible Storying the exciting effort to start new congregations. Dr. Daniel R. Sanchez, J. O. Terry, and Lanette W. Thompson join to provide this most practical information concerning both subjects--Bible Storying and Church Planting. All engaged in using Bible Storying need to heed the material in these pages.

For years we've heard rumors of movements to Christ from inside Cuba. Now, for the first time, Kurt Urbanek has drawn back the curtain and shown us, in remarkable detail, just what God has been doing. You'll be inspired by the passion and sacrifice of these disciples of Christ and how they have emerged from years of op-position to spread the gospel, and thousands of new churches, throughout this island nation.