Resources for Every Pastor’s Library

Apostolic Imagination: Recovering a Biblical Vision for the Church’s Mission Today by J.D. Payne (Baker Academic)

Church Planting Is for Wimps: How God Uses Messed-Up People to Plant Ordinary Churches That Do Extraordinary Things by Mike McKinley (Crossway)

Church Plantology: The Art and Science of Planting Churches by Peyton Jones (Zondervan)

Hero Maker: Five Essential Practices for Leaders to Multiply Leaders by Dave Ferguson and Warren Bird (Zondervan)

The Honest Guide to Church Planting: What No One Ever Tells You About Planting and Leading a New Church by Tom Bennardo (Zondervan)

Launch: Starting a New Church From Scratch by Nelson Searcy and Kerrick Thomas (Baker Books)

Planting a Church Without Losing Your Soul: Nine Questions for the Spiritually Formed Pastor by Tim Morey (IVP Academic)

The Starfish and the Spirit: Unleashing the Leadership Potential of Churches and Organizations by Lance Ford, Rob Wegner and Alan Hirsch (Zondervan Reflective)

Together for the City: How Collaborative Church Planting Leads to Citywide Movements by Neil Powell and John James (IVP)

Outreach Magazine
Outreach Magazinehttp://outreachmagazine.com

Outreach magazine publishes ideas, innovations, resources and stories to help church leaders reach their communities and change the world. Founded in January 2003 by church communications company Outreach Inc., Outreach is an award-winning, bimonthly periodical for church leadership and is available by subscription and on Amazon.com. Find out more at outreachmagazine.com

Walking Like Jesus

Jesus seems to have an unhurried pace. That is to say, he always seems to have time to stop for people, even when doing so was annoying to those around him.

Fight Church: A Fighting Chance

“Here was a people group that wasn’t being served by any form of chaplaincy like many major sports have,” says Pastor Joshua Boyd, of the local MMA community. “And they needed care just like anyone else.”

Perfectly Imperfect Churches

Most of the great breakthroughs and innovative ideas are a result of problems being viewed not as a problem to solve, but an opportunity to make things better.