Jordon Cooper has taken the trouble to compile a Church Planting Reading List with a number of great books that should be of interest to church planters. Recommendations are submitted by Brian McLaren, Jonny Baker, David Fitch, Kester Brewin, Alan Hirsch, Alan Creech, Scot McKnight, Len Hjalmarson, Jordon Cooper, Mark Mealey, Jason Evans, and Guy Kawasaki. I confess I was a bit surprised at Guy Kawasaki being in the list, as I do read his blog from time to time, but tend to think of him in a different context. In any event, the whole list is a virtual treasure-trove for the avid reader or aspiring church planter. The astute reader will catch a few recurring titles…
Church Planting Reading List
by Brother Maynard | Sep 12, 2006 | Books, Church, Church 2.0, Leadership, Missional | 3 comments
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Thanks for the Reading List, I always appreciate when people post them… they are really motivating! On the other hand, I really like the fact that churchplanters where asked about their fav. books about this issues, it shows a lot about their roots and personalities…
Thanks for the link to the list. I added Guy because it was Rules for Revolutionaries and Selling the Dream that got us started with Resonate and also because he was involved with starting so many small organizations. Plus, everyone can complile a list of theologians and pastors, we decided to add a venture capitalist to the mix :-)
Jordon, well done. I think you’re right — it’s all too easy to keep the list to the obvious, but pulling ideas from outside of that does add value… quite often some real gold nuggets come from people who aren’t trying to spiritualize or put things in too specific a context, they just call it as they see it in general terms… The Cluetrain Manifesto and Good to Great would be two more examples.