Tim Keller Church Planter Manual

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(RNS) — Timothy Keller, founder of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in Manhattan and a bestselling author and church planter, announced on Sunday (June 7) that he has pancreatic cancer and will soon. Church, city, Culture, Gospel, Tim Keller Follow In the second and third sessions of the Greenhouse Church Planter’s CoOp, we (1) set forth the gospel by tracing the four major plot movements in Christian Scripture: Creation, Fall, Redemption, and New Creation; and (2) talked about the gospel’s implications for humanity, the church,. I ordered the church planting manual from Redeemer Church Planting Center. Xc Barina Service Manual. For those of you who aren't familiar with Tim Keller, that is his churches' training arm for church planting. As an applicant with Acts29 we're required to attend a boot camp for 2 days and the one I'm looking at attending will be at Keller's. This manual outlines a coaching model to effectively supervise and coach a church in the HCBCNW system. As a church plant coach, your goal is to help the church move from Church Plant status to Church status. Achieving Church status is a sign of a high capacity reproducing church with maturity of leadership and a strong foundation. Redeemer Church Planting Manual by Timothy J. Keller Church planter manual Unknown Binding – January 1, 2002 by Timothy J Keller (Author) See all formats and editions Hide other formats and editions. Enter your mobile number or email address below and we'll send you a link to download the free Kindle App. Then you can start reading Kindle.

The Confident Leader: Getting a Good Start as a Christian Minister by Arlo Grenz

*Feeding & Leading: Practical Handbook on Administration in Churches and Christian Organizations by Kenneth Gangel

*Ministry Nuts and Bolts: What They Don’t Teach Pastors in Seminary by Aubrey Malphurs

Church Growth

*An Unstoppable Force: Daring to Become the Church God Had in Mind by Erwin Raphael McManus

Church Models

The Emerging Church by Dan Kimball, Rick Warren, Brian McLaren

*The Emotionally Healthy Church by Peter Scazzero, Warren Bird

*The Perfectly Imperfect Church: Redefining the “Ideal” Church by Steve Sjogren

Shaped by God’s Heart: The Passion and Practice of Missional Churches by Milfred Minatrea

The Shaping of Things to Come: Innovation and Mission for the 21st Century Church by Michael Frost, Alan Hirsch

Church-Planting

*Church Planting Wiki (This is the ECC resource site)

*Planting Missional Churches by Ed Stetzer

Launch by Nelson Searcy

*Church Planting Landmines by Tom Nebel and Gary Rohrmayer, pub by Church Smart

*Church Planting Manual by Tim Keller (Redeemer Church Planting Center)

First Steps: For Planting a Missional Church by Gary Rohrmayer

Planting Churches That Reproduce by Joel Comiskey

Planting and Growing Urban Churches From Dream to Reality by Harvie Conn

Big Dreams in Small Places: Church Planting in Smaller Communities by Tom Nebel

Community of Kindness: A Relational Approach to Planting and Growing a Church by Steve Sjogren and Rob Lewin

Churches That Multiply by Elmer Towns

Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age by Ed Stetzer

Ten Most Common Mistakes Made by New Church Starts by Jim Griffith/Bill Easum

*Church Smart Resources

Community Building

The Tangible Kingdom by Hugh Halter

Communication and Preaching

Communicating for A Change: 7 Keys to Irresistible Communication by Andy Stanley

*The Art & Craft of Biblical Preaching by Haddon Robinson

*The Folly of Preaching by Michael Knowles

Countdown to Sunday by Chris Erdman

*Pastor’s Guide to Effective Preaching by Billy Graham, Eugene Peterson, and William Willimon

Pastor’s Guide to Growing a Christlike Church by William Willimon

Compassion, Mercy & Justice/ Evangelism

*Deep Justice in A Broken World by Chap Clark & Kara Powell

Restoring At-Risk Communities by John M. Perkins

Good News About Injustice by Gary Haugen

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Just Courage by Gary Haugen

*Compassion, Justice and the Christian Life: Rethinking Ministry to the Poor by Robert Lupton

Justice in the Burbs by Will & Lisa Samson

Lifestyle Evangelism by Joe Aldrich

*Mere Christianity by C.S. Lewis

Turning to Jesus by Scot McKnight

Letters From a Skeptic by Greg Boyd

Demographics

*MissionInsite (contact the conference office for an access code)

Discovering Your City by Bob Waymire

The Gallup Guide: Reality Check for 21st Century Churches by George Gallup

*The American Church in Crisis by David Olson

*The Hispanic Challenge: Opportunities Confronting the Church by Manuel Ortiz

Favorite Preaching & Study Resources that should be in every Pastor’s Library:

*Holman Bible Dictionary

*Thompson Topical Bible

*Hard Sayings of the Bible by Kaiser, Daniels, Bruce & Branch

*Dictionary of Biblical Imagery by IVP

*New Dictionary of Theology edited by Sinclair Ferguson, David Wright and J.I. Packer

*Topical Analysis of the Bible edited by Walter A. Elwell

Covenant Book of Worship

ESV Study Bible

Finances and Fund Raising

Effective Church Finances: Fund Raising and Budgeting for Church Leaders by Kennon Callahan

*People Raising: A Practical Guide to Raising Support by William Dillon

*Starting A Non-Profit at Your Church by Joy Skjegstad

Storytelling for Grantseekers: The Guide to Creative Nonprofit Fund-Raising by Cheryl Clark

*Winning Grants to Strengthen Your Ministry by Joy Skjegstad

Free Resources for preaching, etc.

*Go to LifeChurch.tv and check out “Open – Free Resources for Churches”

Leadership:

*Simple Church by Thom Rainier and Eric Geiger

*Church Unique: How Missional Leaders Cast Vision, Capture Culture, and Create Movement by Will Mancini (Read this after Simple Church)

Leading with Confidence by Bob Biehl (through Masterplanning Group)

If you can only get one book on leadership, get this one.

Crucial Convesations by the Vital Smarts group: Kerry Patterson, Joseph

Grenny, Ron McMillan, Al Switzler – published by McGraw Hill

Incredible book on how to have those tough conversations.

Courageous Leadership by Bill Hybels

*It and Confessions of a Pastor by Craig Groeschel

The Next Generation Leader by Andy Stanley

Christ-Based Leadership by David Stark

Leading Without Power by Max De Pree

Seeker and Servant by Robert K. Greenleaf

*The Dark Side of Leadership by Sam Rima

Insights on Leadership essays by key leaders

*Servant Leadership by Robert Greenleaf

The Bible & Leadership Values by J Robert Clinton

Having a Ministry That Lasts-Becoming a Bible Centered Leader by J Robert Clinton

*The Making of a Leader by J Robert Clinton

The Leadership Challenge by Kouzes and Posner (newly revised)

Spiritual Leadership by Blackaby

TransforMissional Coaching by Steve Ogne & Tim Roehl

The Missional Leader by Alan J. Roxburgh

On Being a Servant of God by Warren Wiersbe

*Building Church Leaders

Mentoring

Barnabas-Encouraging Exhorter: A Study in Mentoring by J Robert Clinton

*Connecting-The Mentoring Relationships You Need to Succeed in Life by J Robert Clinton

*The Mentor Handbook by J Robert Clinton

Strategic Disciple Making by Aubrey Malphur

Outreach and Community Impact

*Community of Kindness by Steve Sjogren

101 ideas for Servant Evangelism for plants

Also get his free “SERVE” e-zine at Servant Evangelism

*Get the Word Out by John Teter, IVP

The Externally Focused Church by Rick Rusaw and Eric Swanson

*Influencer: the power to change anything by the Vital Smarts group – published by McGraw Hill This is an amazing book!

Changing the World Through Kindness by Steve Sjogren

Unchristian by Kinnamon & Lyons

Pastoral Ministry

*Pastor by William Willimon

*The Pastor’s Bible by Zondervan

Pastoral Ministry in the 21st Century by Group Publishing

New Beginnings: A Pastorate Start Up Workbook by Roy Oswald

The Pastor’s Survival Manual by Kenneth Alan Moe

The Pastor’s Start-Up Manual by Robert Ramey, Jr.

Planning for your Launch or Big Sunday

Go Big by Bill Easum and Bil Cornelius

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*First Impressions: Creating Wow Experiences in Your Church by Mark Waltz

*Launch by Nelson Searcy

Next Steps: For Leading a Missional Church by Gary Rohrmayer

Prayer

Make Me Like Jesus by Michael Phillips

Praying With the Church by Scot McKnight

The Divine Hours by Phyllis Tickle

*When God’s People Pray by Jim Cymbala

*Too Busy Not to Pray by Bill Hybels

Intercessory Prayer by Dutch Sheets

When God Doesn’t Answer Your Prayer by Jerry Sittser

*With Christ in the School of Prayer by Andrew Murray

Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire by Jim Cymbala

Research and Information

Small Groups

*Activate by Nelson Searcy

Sticky Church by Larry Osbourne

Fusion by Nelson Searcy

Staffing

*Staff Your Church For Growth: Building Team Ministry in the 21st Century by Gary McIntosh

*Doing Church as a Team by Wayne Cordeiro

*The Heart of the Artist by Rory Noland (focused on arts ministry)

Leading the Team Based Church by George Cladis

Staff Your Church For Growth by Gary McIntosh

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The Big Book of Job Descriptions for Ministry by Larry Gilbert

The BLR Job Descriptions Encyclopedia by Judy Ruddy

Job Description Handbook by Margie Mader-Clark

Stewardship

The Treasure Principle by Randy Alcorn

*360 Degree Stewardship by Kirk Nowery

Theology

*Surprised by Hope by N.T. Wright

*The Divine Conspiracy by Dallas Willard

Wild Goose Chase by Mark Batterson

*Jesus and the Victory of God by N.T. Wright

*The Contemporary Christian by John Stott

Embracing Grace by Scot McKnight

A Community Called Atonement by Scot McKnight

Urban/African-American/Multi-ethnic

*The Next Evangelicalism by Soong-Chan Rah

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A Heart For The City by John Fuder

United by Faith by DeYoung, Emerson, Yancey, and Kim

The Hip-Hop Church by Efrem Smith & Phil Jackson

*High Impact African-American Churches by George Barna & Harry Jackson

Very good book for any church plant!

Multicultural Ministry by David Anderson

*Building a Healthy Multi-Ethnic Church by Mark Deymaz

*Walk With the People: Latino ministry in the United States by Juan Francisco Martinez

City Reaching by Jack Dennison

Journey to the Center of the City by Randy White

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Yesterday I finished reading the 'Redeemer Church Planter Manual', by Tim Keller. In this previous post I shared that although I'm pastoring a 170 year old church, the community around us is rapidly changing (i.e. growth in population from 200 to 8000 in eight years). I thought reading a church planter manual would help me see any blind spots of my own, and give me lots of ideas as I seek to give leadership to our church in its evangelistic ministries. I was not disappointed. Keller strikes an amazing balance between the practicalities of ministry and the theology of church planting. I'd recommend this book to any/every pastor (and as a must read for church planters in particular).
One particular quote stuck out to me, not so much in regard to any particular church, but with the North American evangelical church culture in general. In a chapter on the dynamics of corporate renewal, Keller discusses what he calls dead (or drifting) orthodoxy. This happens when a church has all of its doctrinal ducks in a row, but still lacks vital spiritual life. He recognizes that this is a continuum -- and that most churches fall somewhere on it. But his penetrating insights help any believer to search his/her own heart and look for blind spots. Although there are many 'brands' of dead orthodoxy, Keller expands on what he calls the legalistic 'stream'. Its characteristics are noted blow.
1. Much more emphasis on defending the truth than propagating it. The emphasis is on attacking false views, not winning sinners to Christ. There is smugness toward those without the right views.
2. Strong, even fierce opposition to change programs and worship. What people call ‘closeness to God’ is often the security (sentimentality) that comes from familiar forms and procedures.
3. Often a desire for inspiring, general messages, but nothing disturbing. It is an unwritten law that the pastor must be ‘nice’ and must not offend anyone. On the other hand, in the power churches, the other extreme may happen. The pastor may become very authoritarian and controlling.
4. A tendency toward gossip and censoriousness. Differences cannot be discussed lovingly. Defensiveness creates bitter quarreling. The only way the church deals with this is to hide and suppress disagreements.
5. A dislike for the healthy disorder found in revival/renewals. Either the tradition or the pastor and/or key lay leader must stay in control. Sometimes there is an opposition to displays of emotion of any kind. During renewal people are so wiling to get involved in ministry and worship that there is a kind of ‘divine disorder’ that has to be addressed.
6. And unwillingness to believe in glorious possibilities. Unable to expect or believe that certain kinds of people can change, or no vision for community impact. Planning myopia that comes from a conviction that we can only do as much as we have visible human resources for.
7. Little discussion of one’s spiritual experience -- nearness to God, growth in love, temptations, and so on. There are objections to any self-examination or regular accountability for one’s growth in grace and walk with God.
8. Total focus on the needs and concerns of members and the survival of the institution (church). No desire or intention to reach the world.
9. A lack of lay involvement. A consensus and expectation that the pastor should do virtually all the ministry.

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10. A strong clinging to cultural forms and customs -- types of music and styles of dress and speech and ‘unwritten’ rules of conduct -- which are semi-consciously considered part of what it means to be a ‘mature’ believer.Keller

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- Taken from ‘Redeemer Church Planter Manual’, pp 203-204.