Church planting in the secular west
Subtitle: learning from the European experience
By: Stefan Paas
Series: The Gospel and our culture series; Gospel and our culture series
Publisher: William B. Eerdmans Publishing Company
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9781467446181; 9780802873484
Subjects: Church history; Secularism; New Church development; RELIGION / Christian Church / Administration
Description: In this book Stefan Paas offers thoughtful analysis of reasons and motives for missionary church planting in Europe, and he explores successful and unsuccessful strategies in that post-Christian secularized context. Drawing in part on his own involvement with planting two churches in the Netherlands, Paas explores confessional motives, growth motives, and innovation motives for church planting in Europe, tracing them back to different traditions and reflecting on them from theological and empirical perspectives. He presents examples from the European context and offers sound advice for improving existing missional practices. Paas also draws out lessons for North America in a chapter coauthored with Darrell Guder and John Franke. Finally, Paas weaves together the various threads in the book with a theological defense of church planting. Presenting new research as it does, this critical missiological perspective will add significantly to a fuller understanding of church planting in our contemporary context.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 266-289) and indexes.

Print version record.
Table of contents: title: Church planting and its reasons; title: Planting better churches; title: Planting more churches; title: Planting new churches; title: In defense of church planting in Europe.