On This Rock - A Church Planting Sampler

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Table of Contents	5
Introduction	9
Church Planting Overview	13
World Impact's Strategy for Church Planting	15
Preface: How to Use This Guidebook	19
Seeing the Big Picture (graphic)	31
Session 1: Seeing the Big Picture - Themes and Objectives	32
What Is a Church?	34
Church Planting Overview	37
Session 2: Prepare - Themes and Objectives	46
Overview of Exercise Phases for World Impact's Evangel School of Urban Church Planting	48
Cross-Cultural Church Planting Principles	50
Theology of Culture and the Poor	51
On World Impact's "Empowering the Urban Poor"	53
Our Distinctive: Advancing the Kingdom among the Urban Poor	59
Interaction of Class, Culture, and Race	67
Targeting Unreached Groups in Churched Neighborhoods	68
The SIAFU Network - Assebling God's Warriors	69
The Great Tradition and Creedal Theology	75
The Story of God: Our Sacred Roots	77
There Is a River: Identifying the Streams of a Revitalized Authentic Christian Community in the City	78
Substitute Centers to a Christ-Centered Vision: Goods and Effects Which Our Culture Substitutes as the Ultimate Concern	79
The Picture and the Drama: Image and Story in the Recovery of Biblical Myth	80
From Before to Beyond Time: The Plan of God and Human History	81
The Theology of Christus Victor: A Christ-Centered Biblical Motif for Integrating and Renewing the Urban Church	82
Christus Victor: An Integrated Vision for the Christian Life and Witness	83
Church Planting Models and Strategies	85
Using Wisdom in Ministry: The PWR Process	87
Davis's Project Gauntlet: The Dirty Dozen Criteria for New Initiatives	97
Researching Your Community	99
Church Planting Models	112
Membership Commissioning Service: Anyname Fellowship Church	115
Church Planting Movements	117
Introduction: Sacred Roots, Church Planting, and the Great Tradition	119
The Nature of Dynamic Church Planting Movements: Defining the Elements of Effective Church Planting Movements	125
Creating Choherent Urban Church Planting Movements: Discerning the Elements of Authentic Urban Christian Community	126
The Threefold Cord of Urban Cross-Cultural Church Planting Movements	127
A Model of an Urban Church Association	128
Church Planting Roles and Responsibilities	129
Responsibilities of a Church Plant Team Leader	131
Forming the Church Plant Team and Understanding the Roles	132
Key Roles of a Church Planting Team	136
Responsibilities of a Coach (Multiple Team Leader)	137
Equipping the Church Plant Team Member: Developing Workable Training Strategies	138
Empowering Indigenous Leadership	139
Investment, Empowerment, and Assessment: How Leadership as Representation Provides Freedom to Innovate	141
Nurturing Authentic Christian Leadership	142
Summary of the Capstone Curriculum	143
Fit to Represent: Multiplying Disciples of the Kingdom of God	150
Discipling the Faithful: Establishing Leaders for the Urban Church	151
Understanding Leadership as Representation: The Six Stages of Formal Proxy	152
Overview of TUMI's Resources on the Urban Poor	153
An Abridged Church Planting Bibliography	163
Appendix: World Impact's Church Planting Resources at a Glance	169
Table of Contents: Ripe for Harvest	171
Table of Contents: Planting Churches among the City's Poor, Volume 1	176
Table of Contents: Planting Churches among the City's Poor, Volume 2	182
Prologue: Planting Churches among the City's Poor, Volumes 1 and 2	187
Table of Contents: The Evangel Dean Handbook	194
Back Cover	198

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