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Church planting in the secular west : learning from the European experience / Stefan Paas.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Gospel and our culture seriesPublisher: Grand Rapids, Michigan : William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company, 2016Description: xii, 304 pages ; 23 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780802873484
  • 0802873480
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 254/.1094 23
LOC classification:
  • BV652.24 .P33 2016
Contents:
Church planting and its reasons -- Planting better churches -- Planting more churches -- Planting new churches -- In defense of church planting in Europe.
Summary: In this book Stefan Paas offers thoughtful analysis of reasons and motives for missionary church planting in Europe, and he explores successful and unsuccessful strategies in that post-Christian secularized context. Drawing in part on his own involvement with planting two churches in the Netherlands, Paas explores confessional motives, growth motives, and innovation motives for church planting in Europe, tracing them back to different traditions and reflecting on them from theological and empirical perspectives. He presents examples from the European context and offers sound advice for improving existing missional practices. Paas also draws out lessons for North America in a chapter coauthored with Darrell Guder and John Franke. Finally, Paas weaves together the various threads in the book with a theological defense of church planting. Presenting new research as it does, this critical missiological perspective will add significantly to a fuller understanding of church planting in our contemporary context.
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Book: Standard Hewitson Library, Presbyterian Research Centre Main BV652.24 .P33 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Available 17-373

Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-289) and indexes.

Church planting and its reasons -- Planting better churches -- Planting more churches -- Planting new churches -- In defense of church planting in Europe.

In this book Stefan Paas offers thoughtful analysis of reasons and motives for missionary church planting in Europe, and he explores successful and unsuccessful strategies in that post-Christian secularized context. Drawing in part on his own involvement with planting two churches in the Netherlands, Paas explores confessional motives, growth motives, and innovation motives for church planting in Europe, tracing them back to different traditions and reflecting on them from theological and empirical perspectives. He presents examples from the European context and offers sound advice for improving existing missional practices. Paas also draws out lessons for North America in a chapter coauthored with Darrell Guder and John Franke. Finally, Paas weaves together the various threads in the book with a theological defense of church planting. Presenting new research as it does, this critical missiological perspective will add significantly to a fuller understanding of church planting in our contemporary context.

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