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Church Plantology is a practitioner's textbook offering the application of first century church planting principles to church planters in the 21st century.
List of contents
Section 1: The Foundations of 1st Century Church Planting
* Chapter 1: Biblical Foundations of Church Planting
* Chapter 2: Theological Foundations of Church Planting
* Chapter 3: Historical Foundations of Church Planting
Section 2: The Challenging Paradigms of 21st Century Planting
* Chapter 4: Prevailing Attitudes and Beliefs about Church Planting
* Chapter 5: Current Cultural Challenges to Church Planting
* Chapter 6: Divine Opportunity Provided by Post-Christian ministry
Section 3: The Profile of a Church Planter
* Chapter 7: The Church Planter’s Motives and Goals.
* Chapter 8: The Church Planter’s Make-up and Gifting
* Chapter 9: The Church Planter’s Team
Section 4: Underlying Church Planting Structures
* Chapter 10: Functioning as Missional, Attractional, and Incarnational
* Chapter 11: Church Planting Models
* Chapter 12: Regional Factors: Urban, Rural, Collegiate Planting
Section 5: Approaches to Church Planting
* Chapter 13: Innovative Approaches to church planting
* Chapter 14: Church Styles: Traditional, Contemporary, Sacramental, Pentecostal, and Interactive
* Chapter 15: Contemporary Church Planting Issues
Section 6: Core Team Factors
* Chapter 16: Recruiting and training the Core Team
* Chapter 17: Core Team Dynamics
* Chapter 18: Establishing Vision, Values, and Mission Together
Section 7: Rhythms of Kingdom Advancement
* Chapter 19: Spiritual Dynamics of Church Planting
* Chapter 20: Discipleship as a Lifestyle
* Chapter 21: Missional Engagement
Section 8: Reproducible Sustainability
* Chapter 22: Financial Models
* Chapter 23: Fundraising
* Chapter 24: Bi-vocational Planting
Section 9: Leadership Sustainability
* Chapter 25: Health: Spiritual, Mental, Physical, Social
* Chapter 26: The Planter’s Support Systems
* Chapter 27: Rest
Section 10: Multiplication
* Chapter 28: Leadership Pipeline
* Chapter 29: Training Planters Locally
* Chapter 30: Deploying and Supporting Church Planters
Section 11: Mobilization
* Chapter 31: Gift Identification
* Chapter 32: Gift Development
* Chapter 33: Gift Deployment (includes multiplication)
Section 12: Pitfalls and Problems Associated with Planting
* Chapter 34: People Problems and Conflict Resolution
* Chapter 35: Mental and Psychological Challenges of Leadership
* Chapter 36: Organizational Challenges and Leading Edge Networking Opportunities
About the author
Peyton Jones has served as a master church planting trainer for the North American Mission Board, the content director of Exponential, and cohost of the Church Planter Podcast. A bivocational planter for over two decades, Jones has planted churches in the open air at Long Beach and in Starbucks in Europe. Jones is the founder of the New Breed Church Planting Training Network and author of
Church Plantology. A former evangelist at Dr. D. Martyn Lloyd-Jones's church Sandfields, he earned his master's in theology from Wales Evangelical School of Theology. Jones actively trains and coaches bivocational planters and lives near San Diego with his wife and two children.
Summary
The first comprehensive textbook on effective church planting from a veteran church planter.
The Apostle Paul was a veteran church planter who "laid a foundation like a wise and master builder" and there is much we can learn from his example. Paul indicated that there were basic skills and experiences required to successfully plant a church. Church Plantology examines the wide variety of church planting methods and ideologies in contemporary pastoral practice and outlines a biblical model based on the New Testament.
During his time in prison, Paul spent much of his time writing to Titus, Timothy, and others who'd served alongside him in the trenches to complete their training as church plantings. We can continue to apply these time-tested, proven methods, following the pioneering example of the early church.
Today, the casualty rate in is high. What if we could reduce the odds of failing? Church Plantology by Peyton Jones is a robust guide to planting that will help planters to provide the foundation necessary to survive beyond the initial first years so that they don't end up a walking statistic.
