Title: Steps Toward Wholeness
Subtitle: Learning to Forgive Like Christ
Summary:
Title: The Church Planting Launchpad
Subtitle: Your Step-by-Step Guide to Starting a Thriving Gospel Community from the Ground Up
Summary: A Practical Field Manual for Pastors, Planters, and Launch Teams on Church Growth, Leadership, and Discipleship You feel a undeniable call to start a new church. You have the vision and the passion, but you’re haunted by the daunting practical questions: Where do I even start? How do I build a core team? How do we go from a small group to a thriving community? What about funding, outreach, and avoiding burnout? Many resources are either too theological without being practical, or all strategy without a spiritual foundation, leaving you feeling stuck and unprepared. Without a clear roadmap, that God-given vision can falter. The initial excitement can give way to overwhelm. You risk wasting precious time and resources, making preventable mistakes in church administration, failing to assimilate newcomers, or seeing early growth stall because of a lack of sustainable church strategies. The dream of a church transformation in your community feels further away every day. The Church Planting Launchpad is your answer. This is the comprehensive guide that bridges the gap between biblical calling and on-the-ground execution. It’s designed to be your mentor-in-a-book, providing a proven, step-by-step framework to translate your passion into a healthy, reproducing gospel community. This book provides a clear, phase-by-phase pathway to success:
- Phase 1: Foundational Steps: Solidify your calling, assemble your core team, build a robust spiritual foundation, and conduct essential community research.
- Phase 2: Launch Strategy: Articulate an inspiring vision, establish core values, design your first service, and implement effective early outreach and evangelism initiatives.
- Phase 3: Post-Launch Growth: Master the art of assimilating newcomers, develop your first-level leaders, and create operational systems for sustained engagement and discipleship.
- Phase 4: Sustaining Health: Learn critical strategies for avoiding planter burnout, establishing financial sustainability, and measuring true spiritual growth and health.
- Theological Depth with Practical “How-To“
- Leadership Principles with Management Systems
- Church Vision Casting with Day-to-Day Operations
- Internal Discipleship with External Church Outreach
