The Wholehearted Church Planter

Leadership from the Inside Out

Allan Karr, Linda Bergquist

• Publisher: TCP Books
• Year: 2013
• ISBN:
  9780827243033
• Topic: Teologia e religione
• Subtopic: Chiesa cristiana

The most essential criteria for church planters are not skill based, nor personality driven, but character-centric and rooted in the Great Commandment. The authors of The Wholehearted Church Planter insist that church planting proficiencies flow best from those who truly know and love God, people, and in an appropriate way, themselves. If the authors are correct, the potential for multiplying leaders and reproducing new churches is greatly enhanced. It means that ordinary Christians can evangelize, disciple, and gather people into all kinds of new communities of faith. They can therefore impact church planting movements in ways they never imagined. This book does not disregard the importance of training or the role of the professional, but it calls for a broader, but deeper discernment of whom is being called by God to start new congregations.

Index

A

abiding in Christ, 18–19

accountability, 15–16

Acts 2 Priority, 2

affirmation, 91–92

African Bible Commentary (Adeyemo), 45

Alexander, Christopher, 146

algorithm phase of church evolution, 56–57

Allen, Roland, 25, 127

American Community Survey, 42

Amos Priority, 2

Andra Pradesh, India, 89

Antioch Priority, 2

apostolic gifting, 102, 116

apostolos, xvii, 116

approaches

to church planting, 2

to knowing people, xix

Arizona, Phoenix, 90

Arledge, Duane, 111

Asian communities, 42, 52, 93

Association of Religious Data Archives, 42–43

Athens Priority, 2

attitude, 71–72

attractional methodologies, 117

Augustine, xix, 17

Aurora, Colorado, 86

authority, 132–33

B

baptism, 18

Bass, Dorothy, 92

Bay Area Church Planting, 113

Bay to Breakers race, San Francisco, 92

Benesh, Sean, 101–2

Berglin, Julie, 92

Berglin, Scott, 92

Bergquist, Eric, 95

Berry, Wendell, 149

Best, Corey, 30

Blackwell, Ryan, 51

blessings, on community, 92, 96

boastfulness, 14

Bohm, David, 146

Boston, Massachusetts, 102

boundaries, setting, 142–44, 147

Branden, Doyle, 93

British Colombia, Vancouver, 38

Brother Lawrence of the Resurrection, 6

Buddhists, in U.S. population, 48–49

Bullock, Harold, 93

Burma, Karen refugees, 82–83, 87

burn-out, as flesh response, 34

businesspeople, 7

busy seasons, 70–71

C

Caleb, tribe of Judah, 5

California

Central Valley, 52

Chula Vista, 102

Hawaiian Gardens, 39

Long Beach, 93

Oakland, 58, 10...