Peyton Jones: Church Plantology

Church Plantology: The Art and Science of Planting Churches
(Zondervan, 2021)

WHO: Peyton Jones, master church planting trainer for the North American Mission Board and cohost of Church Planter Podcast.

HE SAYS: “We are not called to plant churches, but to make disciples.”

THE BIG IDEA: This book combines the latest research, apostolic principles and biblical wisdom with church history to best practices to equip readers to plant churches.

THE PROGRESSION: In 10 two-chapter sections the author examines a wide variety of church planting methods and ideologies in contemporary pastoral practice and outlines a biblical model based on the New Testament.

“In order to reach a post-Christian world with the gospel, we must study how the pre-Christian churched reached theirs.”

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Peyton Jones
Peyton Joneshttps://peytonjones.ninja/

Peyton Jones is content director of Exponential and an author, church planter, leadership trainer, podcaster and writer. He also founded New Breed Church Planting Network which continues to train front-line first century style apostolic church planters.

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