A friend and church planter recently asked me for a list of “best books” I read my first year of church planting on ecclesiology. Here is that list:
Academic
“The Challenge of Churchless Christianity” – Timothy C. Tennent (article)
Introduction to Ecclesiology, Veli-Matti Karkkainen
When Church Was A Family, Hellerman
Anthrpological Insights on Missiological Issues, Hiebert
The Missionary Movement in Xn History, Walls
Practioner
Total Church – Chester & Timmis
The Essence of the Church/The Spirit-Led Ministry of the Missional Church – Craig Van Gelder
Forgotten Ways (& later Untamed) Hirsch
Sociology
Better Together, Putnam
Cities of God, Stark
Local Publications/Study
Missiology
See blog post at Acts 29:
http://www.acts29network.org/acts-29-blog/reading-good-missiology-/