Church Planting Resources
Insightful Resources
Want some insight into planting in multiethnic, global, urban, university contexts? Here are a few resources we have found helpful, written primarily from a U.S. context. More needs to be written and discovered from the global church. Leaders and churches in our network also have a rich library of unpublished resources available. These are available upon joining the Network.
Multiethnic
The increase of resources in this area has been a gift to the future of the church. Publishers like Intervarsity Press have led the way in giving space and platform to a diversity of voices. Some basics for church planters include:
The Beautiful Community
Irwyn L. Ince Jr.
Building a Healthy Multiethnic Church
Mark Deymaz
Many Colors
Soong-Chan Rah
Rediscipling the
White Church
David Swanson
Economic Diversity
Many university town contexts include historic layers of economic differences. Some helpful resources include:
A Field Guide to
Becoming Whole
Brian Fikkert & Kelly Kapic
Disruption
Mark Deymaz
University
While resources on reaching the university are readily available, resources analyzing the urban areas next to universities are sparse. More can be written here.
The American College Town
Blake Gumprecht
Global Churches in Global University Towns
Yucan Chiu
Residential Layers Around the University
Yucan Chiu
Urbanization
Resources are abundant in this area. Keller’s work is the standard for church planting in urban areas. Benesh’s work assesses the issue of transportation and planting in urban areas, a key factor to transformational, incarnational ministry near universities.
Center Church
Tim Keller
The Bikeable Church
Sean Benesh
Discipleship
Key works to help with the unique generational and ethnic differences in discipling university town areas include:
True Story: A Christianity Worth Believing In
James Choung
Real Life: A Christianity Worth Living Out
James Choung
