Discovering Church Planting recommended as essential textbook on foundations, principles, and practice of church planting

Contact: Mike Dworak, Biblica, 719-867-2768

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo., Aug. 28 /Christian Newswire/ -- Missionaries, seminary students, and scholars finally have access to a comprehensive, user-friendly guide to high-impact church planting in J.D. Payne's Discovering Church Planting: An Introduction to the Whats, Whys, and Hows of Global Church Planting (Paternoster US/Biblica, paperback, 400 pages, $22.99, ISBN: 9781606570296).

Discovering Church Planting thoroughly addresses the biblical foundations, missiological principles, practical considerations, and essential strategies for planting churches both in North America and overseas. Payne, a church planter, missionary, and associate professor of Church Planting and Evangelism at Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, brings years of hands-on expertise to his understanding of missional, effective church planting.

The author analyzes historical church-planting models and covers a range of church-planting opportunities, including house churches, large churches, and rural and urban churches. He also tackles practical issues church planters face, such as family struggles and financial challenges. Each chapter ends with a summary, questions for reflection, and a list of important terms. Discovering Church Planting also includes thorough footnoting, a generous bibliography, and indexes.

More than 25 top scholars have endorsed Discovering Church Planting. Preeminent missiologist and U.S. Center for World Mission founder Ralph Winter says, "Few [books on church planting] go into such sweeping and helpful detail. This is not a book written by an ivory tower scholar but by a true scholar activist. ... [It] sheds great light on what a church ought to be and how it can reach out in church planting. Get it and read it!"

LifeWay Christian Resources President/CEO Thom Rainer says, "Payne has written the single comprehensive guide to church planting ... I see Discovering Church Planting as becoming the textbook for the discipline for years to come."

Thorough yet accessible, Discovering Church Planting is the ideal guide for students and church planters. Readers will find essential information, both practical and theological, to help them establish a solid basis for church planting. Discovering Church Planting is recommended as the essential text for church planting.

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