On This Rock - A Church Planting Sampler

4 • T ABLE OF C ONTENTS

The Great Tradition and Creedal Theology . . . . . 73 The Story of God: Our Sacred Roots . . . . . . . . . 75 There Is a River: Identifying the Streams of a Revitalized Authentic Christian Community in the City . . . . 76 Substitute Centers to a Christ-Centered Vision: Goods and Effects Which Our Culture Substitutes as the Ultimate Concern . . . . 77 The Picture and the Drama: Image and Story in the Recovery of Biblical Myth . . . . . 78 From Before to Beyond Time: The Plan of God and Human History . . . . . . . . . 79 The Theology of Christus Victor: A Christ-Centered Biblical Motif for Integrating and Renewing the Urban Church . . . . 80 Christus Victor: An Integrated Vision for the Christian Life and Witness . . . . 81 Church Planting Models and Strategies . . . . . . 83 Using Wisdom in Ministry: The PWR Process . . . . . . . 85 Davis’s Project Gauntlet: The Dirty Dozen Criteria for New Initiatives . . . . . . . 95 Researching Your Community . . . . . . . . . . . 97 Church Planting Models . . . . . . . . . . . 110 Membership Commissioning Service: Anyname Fellowship Church . . . . . . . . . . 113 Church Planting Movements . . . . . . . . . 115 Introduction: Sacred Roots, Church Planting, and the Great Tradition . . . 117 The Nature of Dynamic Church Planting Movements: Defining the Elements of Effective Church Planting Movements . 123 Creating Coherent Urban Church Planting Movements: Discerning the Elements of Authentic Urban Christian Community . . . 124 The Threefold Cord of Urban Cross-Cultural Church Planting Movements . . . . . . . . . . 125 A Model of an Urban Church Association . . . . . . . 126