It's not about numbers. Planting Growing Churches for the 21st Century is not about how many people you can get through the church doors on Sunday morning, but about planting and growing spiritually healthy churches that are equipped to reach today's unchurched generation. With vision, purpose, and practical advice, Aubrey Malphurs carefully leads you through the six stages of a new church, inc…
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Part I: The framework -- 1: The context of new congregational development today -- Societal trends and the need for new churches -- Responsibility of the denominations -- New opportunity -- The early years -- 2: Lessons from the past -- From the forties to the seventies -- An upswing in religious interest -- Effective new congregations -- Mistakes to avoid -- Forms of new congregations -- "Miss…