The Multiplying Church: The New Math for Starting New Churches - Hardcover

Bob Roberts Jr.

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0310277167 ISBN 13: 9780310277163

Publisher: Zondervan, 2008

Synopsis

The Multiplying Church is a primer for pastors and lay leaders involved in, or wanting to learn about, the church multiplication groundswell in North America. It shows how multiplying churches should be a natural, regular function of every church to reach the 70 percent of Americans who have no meaningful church relationship. Detailing the stories and guiding principles of this dramatic growth, this guide offers insight on: • Why churches are multiplying in the East but not in the West • Keys to church multiplication • The missing link—pregnant mother churches • Antioch vs. Jerusalem: Which got it right? • What kind of churches should we start? • What is the end game of church planting? • How big does a church have to be to start multiplying churches? • Church planting movements or Jesus movements? Bob Roberts helps us return to an early-church model of multiplication where a single church sent laypeople out to plant other communities of believers.

About this title

About the Author

Bob Roberts Jr. is the founding pastor of NorthWood Church in the Dallas/Ft. Worth area, and has been involved in the planting of a hundred congregations in the United States. Bob also works in Australia, Asia, Afghanistan, Mexico, and Nepal helping with church planting and development and global engagement. Bob is a graduate of Baylor University (BA), Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary (Mdiv), and Fuller Seminary (D.Min.) with an emphasis in church planting. He and his wife have two children.

From the Back Cover

The Multiplying Church is a primer for pastors and lay leaders involved in, or wanting to learn about, the church multiplication groundswell in North America. It shows how multiplying churches should be a natural, regular function of every church to reach the 70 percent of Americans who have no meaningful church relationship. Detailing the stories and guiding principles of this dramatic growth, this guide offers insight on: * Why churches are multiplying in the East but not in the West * Keys to church multiplication * The missing link---pregnant mother churches * Antioch vs. Jerusalem: Which got it right? * What kind of churches should we start? * What is the end game of church planting? * How big does a church have to be to start multiplying churches? * Church planting movements or Jesus movements? Bob Roberts helps us return to an early-church model of multiplication where a single church sent laypeople out to plant other communities of believers.

From the Inside Flap

Read any research report on the state of the church and you'll find the same results: Christianity in America is on the decline. While evangelism is exploding globally as never before, here in the West it has been slowly but relentlessly fading. Megachurches, emergent churches, house churches...none of our attempts to remake, reinvent, or reconstruct the church has made a difference. What can?

Bob Roberts Jr. is founding Pastor of the 2,500-member NorthWood Church outside of Fort Worth, Texas, which is recognized as a leader in church multiplication. Using the experience at NorthWood, he shows how multiplying churches can be a natural, regular function of every church to reach the 70 percent of Americans without a meaningful church relationship. The focus should be on "church mothering" by imparting the DNA for multiplication in all churches.

Detailing the stories and guiding principles of this dramatic growth, he offers insight on:

* Why churches are multiplying in the East but not in the West
* Keys to church multiplication
* The missing link--pregnant mother churches
* Antioch vs. Jerusalem: Which got it right?
* What kind of churches should we start?
* What is the end game of church planting?
* How big does a church have to be to start multiplying churches?
* Church planting movements or Jesus movements?

The Multiplying Church returns to an early-church model of multiplication where a single church sent laypeople out to start other communities of believers. Each new church in turn gave birth to other churches. This approach can make all the difference in your own church's outreach. Instead of individual and occasional church planting, the focus is on continual "church mothering," where the mother church imparts the DNA for multiplication in its church plants. Each daughter church in turn has the potential to replicate itself in "granddaughter" churches, and the process continues.

Edition details

• Publisher: Zondervan
• Publication date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0310277167
• ISBN 13: 9780310277163
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 192