Sword of the Spirit

Missional Press announces the publication of Sword of the Spirit: How God’s Word Changes Lives by Dr. Kelly Malone.

People tend to base their spiritual hope on their own strengths and abilities. To say, “While we are saved by the blood of Jesus, real spiritual change comes by means of our own toil and sweat.” We encourage this tendency when we explain what people must do in a way that nullifies God’s role in the process. For example, we tell people that if they believe in Jesus and say the sinner’s prayer they will be saved. As a result, many people believe that these human actions, apart from any intervention on God’s part, can save a person from sin, death and hell. This is more like belief in magic than it is a biblical understanding of salvation by God’s grace through faith (Eph. 6:10). It is the work of God’s Spirit in us that saves from sin and brings new life; no human activity can save.

The same problem occurs in many popular presentations of spiritual growth. People are told, “Go to church, read the Bible, pray, witness, serve others, and you will grow to be like Christ.” The problem with this assertion is that a person can follow through with all these activities and never even have a personal relationship with Jesus Christ. The disciple’s life is not primarily a matter of human activity; it is a life lived out in relationship to Jesus. We learn to be like Jesus by following Him; we develop the character of Christ through obedience to His Word.

Spiritual change is not the result of mere human ingenuity, effort or methodology. The Sword of the Spirit challenges us to allow God’s Spirit to use God’s Word to transform us into the likeness of God’s Son, Jesus Christ. As God’s Word comes to life in us, He enables us to change the world for Him!

Author Biography
Kelly Malone is Assistant Professor of Intercultural Studies and the Jack Stanton Chair of Evangelism at Southwest Baptist University. He served for fifteen years as a missionary in Japan with the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention. Kelly lives with his wife Molly, his daughter Maggie, and his son Kevin in Bolivar, Missouri.

Purchase the book
The Sword of the Spirit can be purchased through Missional Press or through online retailers such as Amazon.com

Caminos Olvidados: Reactivemos la Iglesia Misional

Missional Press announces the publication of Caminos Olvidados: Reactivemos la Iglesia Misional, the Spanish edition of Alan Hirsch’s book The Forgotten Ways.

The retail price of the book is $19.99 and will be available at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble.com and other online retail sites as well as in select stores in the US and Latin American.

You can also PURCHASE THE BOOK through Missional Press for the discounted price of $17.99 by using our reseller CCNow.

Descripción del producto
Alan Hirsch está convencido de que las fórmulas de crecimiento heredado el Cuerpo de Cristo no funcionan más. Y en lugar de confiar en soluciones ligeramente revisada del pasado, él ve una visión de futuro crecimiento de la iglesia viene por aprovechar el poder de la iglesia primitiva, que pasó de tan sólo 25.000 fieles en el año 100 a un máximo de 20 millones de en el año 310. Esa también es increíble el crecimiento que experimenta hoy en día en la iglesia en China y en otras partes del mundo. ¿Cómo lo hacen? ¿Ha olvidado la formas explora el concepto de genio apostólica como una manera de entender lo que causó la iglesia para ampliar en diversos momentos de la historia, la interpretación de que para su uso en nuestro propio tiempo y lugar. A partir de la bases teológicas para la aplicación práctica, Hirsch lleva al lector a través de esta dinámica mezcla de pasión, la oración y la encarnación práctica de redescubrir el potencial latente de la iglesia moderna en Occidente.

Mission Work
1. Glocal missiology
2. Church planting
3. Missionary biographies along with extrapolations of theology and practice of missionaries.
4. Trans-cultural Communication
5. Gospel Storying – reframing the narratives in the scripture in a cross-cultural or trans-cultural process

Missional Theology
1. Trinitarian Theology – Missional theology, we feel, is an expression of trinitarian theology
2. Ecclesiology from a missional framework
3. Formation of additional missional theological concepts
4. Missional from a historical framework
5. Post-Christendom and Post-Christian thought
6. Post-Modern theology

Practical Theology
1. Evangelism from a missional perspective
2. Church Transitions to a missional framework
3. Spiritual Formation in a missional framework
4. Pastoral ministry from a missional framework
5. Third space theology and practice
6. Multi-Generational ministry with a missional focus
7. Process-oriented, practical books that build on missional topics

Missional Press has also formed a second imprint that focuses more on general Christian topics. That imprint is Morfx Press, which is a merging of Morphe, implying change, and fx, for effects.

Steve began his research into Christian movements in the late 1980s while serving as a church planter in Melbourne, Australia. He carried that interest into his Doctor of Ministry with Fuller Seminary. Steve currently serves as Director of Church Resource Ministries (CRM) Australia, a member of the CRM global community. CRM empowers leaders for the church.

Steve’s calling is to empower godly leaders who strengthen and multiply churches, everywhere.

Steve has been married to Michelle for twenty-four years. Together they have four children and one dog and live in Melbourne. Steve loves to walk, read historical novels, see Shakespeare performed and support the Collingwood (Aussie rules) Football Club.

The book is how Jesus founded a missionary movement that now spans the globe. His followers are called to continue his mission in the power of the Holy Spirit.

A movement is a group of people pursuing a common cause. Movements are characterized by discontent, vision, and action. For good or for evil, movements change the world.

From biblical, historical, and contemporary case studies, we can identify five recurring characteristics of dynamic missionary movements.

1. White hot faith
2. Commitment to a cause
3. Contagious relationships
4. Rapid mobilization
5. Adaptive methods

Jesus calls us to participate in a missionary movement that will one day reach every tribe, every language, every people, and every nation. These five characteristics point the way to how we can obey his call.

The book has received some great endorsements as well:

Steve and I go a long way back. We were enrolled in seminary together and shared many of the same classes. It became clear early on that we shared a similar passion for the idea of movements and their relevance for the mission of the Church today. And as we met together regularly over the years, we have shared many ideas that we think are vital to recover in our day if we are going to reverse the decline of the Church at the dawn of the 21st Century. The net result has been one of the most theologically fertile friendships that I have ever had. Certainly we argued some, agreed mostly, and refined our thinking all the time, but definitely we mutually enriched each other’s views on this vital topic over the last twenty years. Speaking personally, I would have to say that Steve’s friendship has also been a kind of mentorship that has left me a much richer person than before and for which I am profoundly thankful. His influence can be found throughout my own writings on this topic.

Steve is a veritable gold mine of useful information. But even more than that, he brings a passionate love for God and his people to the task of writing. In reading Movements that Change the World you will discover a thoroughly readable description of the dynamics of missionary movements, as well as how to initiate, maintain, and extend them. Trust me, behind this unencumbered, non-technical portrayal of the examples of history and their ongoing witness to us lies is a lifetime of dense research that brings together disparate insights from theology, church history, sociology, business studies, change processes, missiology, leadership studies, spirituality, and anything in between. This book is indeed a labor of love that has taken decades of loving service to prepare.

Instructed as it is by the educative experiences of history, fueled by a missionary’s vision of what the world can be, and guided by deep commitment to orthodox, historic Christianity, Steve Addison’s book should be read by all who wish to rediscover what it means for Christianity to be a missional movement again in the West.

Alan Hirsch

Founding Director of Forge Mission Training Network and Shapevine.com
Author of The Forgotten Ways and co-author of The Shaping of Things to Come
www.theforgottenways.org

I had the privilege of meeting Steve for the first time in 2008 at a small global gathering of influential pastors who had all planted churches and were planting churches out of their churches. I’ve followed Steve’s blog and writings for years, and I’m delighted he has gathered his insights into book form. Studying church planting movements is challenging because of all the history, facts, and contexts – it isn’t easy work, and sometimes it is not easy work to read! That’s where Steve comes in!

Steve has done his homework and has all the academic qualifications necessary to identify the five core characteristics of a church planting movement – maybe any movement. The good news is he does it in a way that enables all of us, not just the academics, to understand it. After all, it’s going to be our “everyday disciples” that will make this happen. He then gives both historical and contemporary examples of how it works to illustrate.

The character and experiences of the book’s author are huge in terms of how much can you trust what’s written. That is another point where Steve really stands out. He lives this stuff. He has planted churches, been involved and is recognized as one of the top global leaders in training church planters, and is also a student and researcher of church planting and movements.

I not only endorse this book but also will require all of our interns, students, and residents to read it. Thanks, Steve, for a great gift to the body of Christ!

Bob Roberts, Jr.

Pastor, NorthWood Church in Keller, Texas
Author of Transformation; Glocalization; The Multiplying Church; and Real-Time Connections
www.glocal.net

“There are very few who have truly studied, dissected, and understood church multiplication movements at the core. My friend Steve Addison is one who has done his homework. I have anticipated this work for some time and am pleased to report it is better than I ever expected. In a single volume vast amounts of experience, wisdom, research, and testing have been synthesized into an easy-to-read book that all of us should be familiar with. Steve has put in the years of research, and now you and I can benefit from all of his hard work in a few hours of reading. It would be foolish to not take advantage of this resource.”

Neil Cole

Founder of Church Multiplication Associates and Awakening Chapels and author of Organic Church; Organic Leadership; Search & Rescue; and Cultivating a Life for God.
www.cole-slaw.blogspot.com

“I love this book! Every so often a book comes along that fuels the flame that was started in my heart years ago when I was a young and very passionate world changer. I love reading this type of book. I’m still a fanatical, passionate, fiercely focused, imbalanced, apostolic type guy. I’m older now, but more passionate than ever. If you’re looking for an intelligent and passionate book to stir you to dream big dreams, a dream of how a movement can begin through your life, and give you practical tools to help implement those dreams, then read Movements that Change the World!”

Floyd McClung

All Nations
Cape Town, South Africa
Author of You See Bones, I See an Army: Changing the Way We Do Church; The Father Heart of God; and Living on the Devil’s Doorstep.
www.floydandsally.org

“Steve has been tantalizing me with tales of this book for years. He has talked to me about the content on numerous occasions. The chapters are distilled from years of experience and thought, and the final product has not disappointed. Practitioners and thinkers with a passion for mission will want to read and re-read this book.”

Dr. Martin Robinson

Together in Mission, (UK based interchurch agency encouraging mission and church planting)
Author of Metavista: Bible Church and Mission in an Age of Imagination and Planting Mission Shaped Churches Today.
www.togetherinmission.org

An important book for our times- well-researched, well-written, and well thought-out. Steve puts his fingers on the essential qualities that have defined movements of the Spirit throughout the ages. And the stories he tells-biblical, historical, contemporary, and personal-give us hope for fresh movements of God in our day.

Dr. Robert E. Logan

CoachNet International Ministries
Author of Be Fruitful and Multiply

“As I read through your manuscript I felt that I had met a long lost brother. I had to read it through in a single sitting because it pulled me through from start to finish. Excellent work, brother! This will be a valuable contribution to our growing understanding of church-planting movements and their history, scope, and nature. I love the way you have woven together insights from sociology, history, Scripture, contemporary case studies, and even personal experience. I will be recommending this to everyone I know. Thank you for vividly reminding us that Jesus did not found a religion, but a movement!”

David Garrison

Global Strategist for Evangelical Advance,
International Mission Board, Southern Baptist Convention
Author of Church Planting Movements: How God is Redeeming a Lost World
www.churchplantingmovements.com

“Adaptive, innovative and consuming…” Those words characterize the movements Steve Addison describes and prescribes in his book. They also depict the book–pick it up and it won’t let go of you. I couldn’t put it down till it finished re-arranging my mind. This is a keeper!

Ralph Moore

Pastor: Hope Chapel Kaneohe Bay, Hawaii
Author: How To Multiply Your Church

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Bob Roberts

Ed Stetzer

Jon is a church planting candidate who has attended one of the Baptist seminaries in the southern part of the United States. He has studied church planting in class; he has heard teachers and guest speakers talk about their experiences and espouse certain strategies for planting new churches. He has been exposed to church plants in the community nearby and has even interviewed some of the planters to learn what has worked and what has not. As he examines the theory and the practice of these church leaders, he wonders whether he knows enough to determine if church planting is for him.

Jon is not alone today. The interest in church planting is immense. Books and magazine articles are being written about the topic all the time; conferences and training workshops are too many to number. Even in academic circles, where it once was considered by students as a “last resort,” church planting has taken on a high profile opportunity.

It draws a lot of attention these days, for a variety of reasons. Some are attracted to the pioneer spirit necessary to “start something new.” Others respond to the absence of tradition and “the way things have been.” Headline-making planters across the country keep the profile and impact of church planting front and center in the ministry stories we hear. Some are using amazingly creative ways to engage a Biblically-illiterate society with the relevance of the eternal Gospel.

That’s what this book is about. It is an attempt to capture on paper for “Jon” the heart and imagination of some of the best church planters in the world, those who have served here in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States with our Baptist denomination over the past few years. These men and women have shared their stories and helped us all learn how to plant churches more effectively than before.

In the world of church planting there is a common line of thought, suggesting that these three things must be aligned if the ministry is to be effective: right planter, right place and right plan. If this line of thought is accurate, you will have to do the hard work of deciphering God’s call upon your life and the way he has shaped you for ministry to determine whether or not church planting is really for you. If it is what God has intended for you to pursue, then and only then, do the right place and right plan become critical to success.

Such contextualization is necessary for us to engage and transform the culture where planters are embedded. And it is this kind of contextual understanding that is critical for taking the theory of a textbook and hammering it out on the anvil of reality in field experience.

To purchase this book, visit the Missional Press store.

Jason Barr was born and raised in the small town of Medina, Tennessee.  He graduated from Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee with a degree in mechanical engineering.  After graduating from college, Jason moved to Ohio, Indiana, Florida, New York, and Nebraska seeking success with numerous corporate transfers and promotions.

A discontentment with the corporate lifestyle, a series of nationally publicized corporate scandals, the birth of his first daughter, and the death of a family member led Jason to leave his corporate career.  No longer chasing success, Jason lives in a suburb of northeast Atlanta with his wife, Sara, and two daughters, Olivia and Amelia, where he enjoys spending time with his family, reading, hiking, and is active in his local church, New Bethany Baptist Church.

In pursuit of his mission, Jason wrote this book, created a blog (http://significantblog.wordpress.com), travels to Eastern Europe to teach English, and is available for speaking engagements.  Jason freely admits that he is still a work in progress, and is confident that if he can give up the quest for false success, so can you.

From the Back Cover:

The world is filled with people who are at wit’s end with their careers. Whether it is a lack of fulfillment, long hours, time away from our families, office politics, or the burning desire that we were meant for something else, most of us have felt the urge to leave our job and pursue a career that we feel will offer us fulfillment. Just when we think we have reached the breaking point, our thoughts turn to the income, status, and security that our jobs offer. Unable to walk away from the level of success we have attained, we continue toiling away at a career we sometimes despise. Prisoners Of Our Own Success investigates how we perceive success and offers a roadmap on how to find significance in our careers as we redefine success on our own terms. This is a must read for anyone who has achieved success, but has been left wanting.

The book will be released before Thanksgiving and available online.

1. Walks with the Lord
2. Maintains an Outstanding Character
3. Serves the Local Church
4. Remains Faithful to the Call
5. Shares the Gospel Regularly
6. Raises Up Leaders
7. Encourages with Speech and Actions
8. Responds Appropriately to Conflict

Dr. J.D. Payne is a National Missionary with the North American Mission Board and an Associate Professor of Evangelism and Church Planting in the Billy Graham School of Missions, Evangelism and Church Growth at The Southern Baptist Theological Seminary. Having taught church planting and evangelism courses in evangelical institutions for nine years and served with several church planting teams and with the largest Protestant evangelical missions agency in North America, Dr. Payne is aware of the lack of quality church planting resources, particularly resources addressing church planting teams.

Purchase the book at the discounted rate of $14.99 $12.99 by going here.  Or purchase at amazon, other online retailers, and brick and mortar retailers.

Praise for The Barnabas Factors:

Given the risky and pioneering nature of church planting, it is essential to develop healthy relationships amongst members of the founding team. Here J. D. Payne gives us a biblical model of engendering healthy team dynamics by looking to the life and ministry of Barnabas. This is a book for those of us who want to keep a joyful camaraderie whilst advancing the kingdom.

Alan Hirsch
Author of The Forgotten Ways and The Shaping of Things to Come
Founding director of Shapevine.com

The Barnabas Factors: Eight Essential Practices of Church Planting Team Members is a unique and much needed book for anyone interested in church planting. I strongly believe it is a must-read for newly appointed missionaries and just as essential for veteran missionaries. This book powerfully sets forth the need for godly personal characteristics that are vital for successful church planting teams. The diagnostic tool at the conclusion of the book will be a great help in evaluating potential team members.

Charles Brock
President, Church Growth International
Author of Indigenous Church Planting: A Practical Journey

I highly recommend this book. From end to end it is practical: it’s the relationship stuff, the personal qualities of team members, and the realistic nuts and bolts of ministry that are so ultimately determinative to fruitfulness in the church planting and team contexts. Payne brings great clarity as to what is a missionary “call.” And for no extra charge there is a powerful tool at the end pulling all the principles together to help you decide who to take onto your team and who not to. A must-read for all church planters.

Daniel Sinclair
Author of A Vision of the Possible: Pioneer Church Planting in Teams

You reproduce what you are! In The Barnabas Factors: Eight Essential Practices of Church Planting Team Members, J. D. skillfully uses Barnabas to expose eight critical factors that enable a person to be an effective team player. Often, in the West we focus on glittery leaders; J. D. focuses on Barnabas, the glue of Paul’s first team. He does an excellent job of making these attributes practical and applicable in the team church planting context . . . The book certainly should be read by those headed for the field and those teams already functioning in a field context.

Dick Scoggins
Head of Leadership Development, Frontiers
Author of Building Effective Church Planting Teams

Dr. J. D. Payne stresses the crucial need for possessing the personal and character qualities that were evident in the life and ministry of Barnabas. I wholeheartedly recommend this book to those who are dead serious about planting churches that are built on a solid biblical foundation and impacting their communities in the same manner in which the churches started by Barnabas and his team members impacted theirs.

Daniel R. Sanchez
Director, Scarborough Institute for Church Planting and Growth,
Roy Fish School of Evangelism and Missions,
Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary

Having served as a church-planting missionary and trainer of church planters for over twenty years, I believe the greatest obstacles to effective church planting teams were, and today remain, unresolved team conflict and personal character issues of team members. Now there is a tool to help church planters be more proactive in effectively selecting suitable team members. If there is a priority need today in church planting, it is a need for the church planting team members first to be people of exemplary Christ-like character . . . Payne’s book addresses this issue in a clear and concise manner. This tool is a necessity for every church planter’s, mission agency’s, and church’s toolkit as they seek to develop and deploy effective church planting teams for the glory of God.

R. Bruce Carlton
Associate Professor of Missions, Boyce College
Author of Acts 29: Practical Training in Facilitating Church-Planting Movements Among the Neglected Harvest Fields

J. D. Payne offers sound biblical advice for building a strong church planting team. Often, in an attempt to build the perfect “Dream Team” many church planters rush the process and end up shipwrecking the potential of a new church. Nothing can be more devastating to the birth of a new church than a spiritually dysfunctional team. Whether you are planting a new church or leading a church planting organization, The Barnabas Factors: Eight Essential Practices of Church Planting Team Members is a must-read!

Stephen Gray
National Missions Director for the General Association of General Baptists
Author of Planting Fast Growing Churches

MORFX Press, a division of Missional Press, is pleased to announce the publication of “Free to Be You” by Dr. Fred Antonelli, Ph.D.

To celebrate the publishing of Free to Be You, Missional Press is offering the book at the discounted price of $12.99.  To order, click here.

Dr. Antonelli is founder and director of Life Counseling Center with offices on the Eastern Shore of Maryland and Delaware. He is a former Senior Pastor of 23 years as well as a licensed pychotherapist specializing in crisis marriage and pastoral counseling. Fred lives with his wife of thirty six years, Debbie, in Easton, Maryland.

The Forward by Dr. David Stoop

“Who am I?” has always been a difficult question for us to answer.  With all of the peer pressures and cultural expectations of our day and age, perhaps this has become the hardest question to answer.  In our attempts to answer the question, we often pick some role we play that is important to us and use it to define our answer.  Most men will say that “I am what I do”-especially my work.  Most women will say the same kind of thing, such as “I am Zachary’s mom.”  But pressed beyond what we do, and we often don’t have an answer.  Someone has said that we are not “human-doers” but we are “human-beings.”  But if the questioner says, “I want to go beyond what you do, to who you are,” we are at a loss for words.

Dr. Antonelli has tackled this question of “who am I” and helps take us step-by-step on a journey of self-definition-what kind of “being” are we?  Weaving together his pastoral experience with his clinical experience, he has creatively provided tools we can use in practical ways to break away from what he calls the “messages and signals” of our family-of-origin, and from the cultural pressures that have often trapped us into an understanding of ourselves that isn’t really who we are.

Beginning with the ability to dream again-to envision what stirs deep within us, Fred goes on to combine your dream with God’s dream for your life. Then he lays out practical ways you can nourish yourself so that you can persevere on the path God wants to lead you on so as to enjoy your life. In these pages you will find ways to redefine yourself that are biblically based, rather than culturally based.  And when you dig in to this book, you will find out how to answer that “who am I” question.  Enjoy the journey!

David Stoop, Ph.D.
Author and Psychologist

We all enter adulthood with many internalized messages that can hamper us from fulfilling God’s plan for our lives.  Free to Be You provides practical as well as biblical insight that can help you overcome hampering “Messages & Signals” that have been implanted from childhood.  I am sure the reader will find this a very helpful resource.

Dr. Archibald Hart
Author, Clinical Psychologist & Former Dean
Fuller Graduate School of Theology

Our first publication is entitled “Free to Be You” by Dr. Fred Antonelli.

UPDATE: Purchase Planting Churches from:

Amazon & Barnes & Noble

Coming Soon to Lifeway Christian Stores

Missional Press would like to announce it’s latest publication. Planting Churches in the Real World is written by Dr. Joel Rainey, Director of Missions for the Mid-Maryland Baptist Association, a network of more than 50 evangelical churches located in the Baltimore-Washington, D.C. area. Dr. Rainey has been involved in planting more than 30 churches, and trains church planters nationally and internationally. He lives in central Maryland with his wife and their two sons.

Most church planting literature highlights enormously successful ministries. While such ministries can serve as a noble benchmark for every church planter, they are far from the norm. Most who plant churches will never see their name in lights, and all who plant churches will find it to be one of the most difficult things they have ever sought to accomplish.

In this book, the author invites you to take an “inside look’ at those difficulties. He shares his own successes and failures with candor, and lays bare the reality of planting a new church, which include both strenuous difficulties and glorious rewards. Read this book to be prepared for the effort, and ready for the blessing that comes from planting churches.

Praise for Planting Churches:
Church planting is not for the easily discouraged. The average new church is less than 100 attenders after four years, but most conference speakers and book writers tell stories of hundreds after the first year– a reality few church planters experience. Rainey paints a picture of reality, including both the difficulties involved in starting a new church, and the evidence that planting a church is worth enduring those difficulties. If you are a planter drunk with vision, this will sober you up. But, it is more than that. It also shows that church plants make a difference whether they are thousands or dozens after the first year. I’ve known Joel for years, and he tells the stories from his own journey– telling lessons he learned the hard way. It’s real world church planting and it is worth your time.
Dr. Ed Stetzer, author of Planting Missional Churches. Director of Research, Lifeway Christian Resources, Nashville, TN

“Dr. Rainey amuses the reader with countless stories of life on the field. His “lessons learned” approach to the book serves as a clear warning for future church planters: “The Kingdom of Heaven is near you, but this won’t be easy!”
Dr. Jack Allen, Director, The Day Center for Church Planting. New Orleans, LA

“Candid, winsome, thoroughly biblical, keenly missional, and sensibly linked to the real world. Don’t be fooled. The weightiness of this little book is inversely proportional to its size, and its wise counsel will help point a safe way through the tangle of neglected assumptions, misguided strategies, ill-founded hopes, and unintentional blunders that accosts the unwary planter on the way to church. Well done!”
B. Spencer Haygood, Senior Pastor, Orange Hill Baptist Church. Marietta, GA

“Born in the ward of real world experience, Planting Churches in the Real World is theologically sound, theoretically tenable, and practically accessible. During a time when starting a church can be faddish, Rainey’s work is a dose of both Biblical wisdom and common sense that will stop many would-be church planters before a frustrating failure, and direct many others onward toward biblical success.”
Marty Duren, co-author of Journeys: Transitioning Churches to Relevance. Lead Pastor, New Bethany Church. Buford, GA

“Reality bites, as the saying goes. Yet in the age of incredible lostness in America, we must see church planting for what it is . . . a way to spread Gospel influence to every, man, woman and child. High birth weight churches, although fun and influential for the Kingdom, are not the norm, nor are they the answer. Joel Rainey has captured the reality and yet the incredible potential of church planting. New churches running less than 100 are key players in the Kingdom. Small does not have to mean ineffective. Small groups of missionary Christians are critical to our mission and our future. Way to go!
Dr. Dino Senesi. Church Planting Movement Leader, Columbia, SC