Tools for Missional Church
This page is devoted to very practical tools for planting or cultivating missional churches. Please feel free to download documents, adapt them, and so on. I do ask that you link back to this site if you re-post from these tools and cite where appropriate. Every blessing in your missional endeavors.
Church Planting Resources
Missiology
- Exegeting Your Culture
- Conversion and Contextualization
- Get Better at Contextualization
- How NOT to be a Missional Church
- Two Kinds of Simple Church
- Missional Discipleship : Reinterpreting the Great Commissions
Missional Core Teams
- Missional Core Team Growth
- Stages of Organic Growth
- 8 Ways to Easily Be Missional
- Launch/Core Team Covenant
- Launch Criteria: Discerning When to “Launch”
- Organic Church
Missional Communities
- The 3 Layers of Mission (new)
- Is a City Group a Missional Community? (new)
- How to Start and Lead Missional Communities
- Rethinking Missional Community Leadership
- Differences Between House Churches and Missional Communities(Chester)
- Practices of a Missional Community – I
- Practices of a Missional Community – II
- Living in the Tension of Mission and Community
- Gospel Fluency (Jeff Vanderstelt) (new)
Missional Leadership
- Spirit-led Ecclesiology
- Missional Leader Readiness
- Where to Office: Church or Home?
- Developing Deacons in Missional Church
- Deacons Position Paper (Bob Thune)
- Counseling on Mission
Practical Missional Ecclesiology
- Rethinking Church Membership
- Members or Parnters: Does Terminology Matter? (read comments)
- Why a Partners Class?
- Austin City Life Partners Class Material
Missional Church Practices
- Decentralized Missional Church Growth(new)
- 7 Mega-Trends Facing the Church
- Missional Church, Tim Keller
- Missional Church Refresher
- Rethinking Church: Membership, Community, & Pastoring
- Qualifications for Pastor/Elders
- Why NOT to Start a Second Service & Why TO Start a Second Service
- Keeping the Global in Missional