I wanted to give you an update on my book Apostolic Church Planting. As I shared in February, this work is scheduled to be released with InterVarsity Press in October or November. IVP is wanting to release it before Urbana, and I totally agree.
I received this rough draft of the cover today and wanted to share it with you. While I’ve suggested a small revision (removing “birthing” from the subtitle), I love the look and think they did an outstanding job.
Apostolic Church Planting is a brief theological, missiological, and practical book written to pastors, planters, churches, mission agencies, and networks to shift their thinking about church planting from expecting church planters to plant and pastor to expecting church planters to follow a Pauline approach. This means:
1) church planting becomes defined as evangelism that results in disciples made that results in churches planted
2) churches are planted from the harvest fields with 100% conversion growth, not with long-term Kingdom citizens (i.e., transfer growth)
3) priority is given to unreached people groups, especially in North America
4) a team works together moving through planned role changes, eventually raising up/equipping pastors for the newly planted church and phasing out to begin disciple making elsewhere
5) strategy and methods are to be thoroughly biblical, appropriately contextualized, and highly reproducible for multiplication
I am very excited about this unique work which builds from Discovering Church Planting and The Barnabas Factors. In it, I address both why and how, and answer many questions along the way.
Stay tuned. I plan to keep you updated.
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Looks good.
I appreciate the kind word, Aidan.
Looking forward to this one.
Thanks, Matt!
JD, I am really looking forward to this book. I do a great deal of training pastors and church planters globally and am certain it will be a valuable resource
Thanks, Dan. I hope it will be helpful to you and those you train.
Thank you JD! I really look forward to reading this book and trust it will be a great resource for other church planting missionaries!
I appreciate your encouragement, Omar. Thank you. I hope it will be of assistance to you.
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Do you have plans in the future to translate some of your books in Spanish?
My publishers would need to make that decision. I would love for them to be translated into Spanish. The more people who contact my publishers with this request, the more likely they will translate the books.