Resources
Books and Readings
The Agile Church: Spirit-Led Innovation in an Uncertain Age
Taking one page from the Bible and another from Silicon Valley, priest and scholar Dwight Zscheile brings theological insights together with cutting-edge thinking on organizational innovation to help churches flourish in a time of profound uncertainty and spiritual opportunity.
The Church as Movement: Starting and Sustaining Missional-Incarnational Communities
This book will help you start missional-incarnational communities in a way that reflects the viral movement of the early New Testament church. JR Woodward (author of Creating a Missional Culture) and Dan White Jr. (author of Subterranean) have trained church planters all over North America to create movemental churches.
The Church Awake: Becoming the Missional People of God
The Episcopal Church has long been perceived as a church of the cultural elite, more concerned with gathering the privileged than participating in God’s mission. This essay asks the questions, What would it take for the Episcopal Church to “wake up” to its original calling: being a community of “practitioners of the reign of God?”
Church Planting in Post-Christian Soil: Theology and Practice
In this book, Christopher James attends carefully to stories of ecclesial innovation taking place in Seattle, Washington-a city on the leading edge of trends shaping the nation as a whole.
Disciplined Entrepreneurship: 24 Steps to a Successful Startup
Disciplined Entrepreneurship will show you how to create a successful startup through developing an innovative product. It breaks down the necessary processes into an integrated, comprehensive, and proven 24-step framework that any industrious person can learn and apply.
Dynamic Adventure: A Guide to Starting and Shaping Missional Churches
Dynamic Adventure is a guide for your team’s journey into the strange and unfamiliar territory of starting or shaping a missional expression of church. It’s filled with real-life stories from the field and over fifty practical exercises to guide you as you learn and apply to your unique context the six dynamics of Communitas International’s approach to missional church planting: Embed, Initiate, Practice, Mature, Hub, and Extend.
God Gave the Growth: Church Planting in the Episcopal Church
This book addresses how to rise up and train leaders for the difficult task of planting new churches in the twenty-first century. It answers the essential questions, such as why should we plant churches, what models of church planting are most successful, what kinds of leaders are necessary, and what problems can be expected.
Grit: The Power of Passion and Perseverance
Pioneering psychologist Angela Duckworth shows anyone striving to succeed—be it parents, students, educators, athletes, or business people—that the secret to outstanding achievement is not talent but a special blend of passion and persistence she calls “grit.”
The New Parish: How Neighborhood Churches Are Transforming Mission, Discipleship and Community
When faith communities begin connecting together, in and for the neighborhood, they learn to depend on God for strength to love, forgive and show grace like never before. The gospel becomes so much more tangible and compelling when the local church is actually a part of the community, connected to the struggles of the people, and even the land itself.
Planting Churches in the 21st Century: A Guide for Those Who Want Fresh Perspectives and New Ideas for Creating Congregations
What does church planting look like in the 21st century? Is the goal to plant more churches or is it to plant new kinds of churches? In Planting Churches in the 21st Century, Stuart Murray suggests that church planting isn’t just about numbers–it’s about the renewal of the church and the development of new ways of being the church that are biblically rooted and contextually appropriate.
Start with Why: How Great Leaders Inspire Everyone to Take Action
In 2009, Simon Sinek started a movement to help people become more inspired at work, and in turn inspire their colleagues and customers. Since then, millions have been touched by the power of his ideas, including more than 28 million who’ve watched his TED Talk based on START WITH WHY — the third most popular TED video of all time.
Starting Missional Churches: Life with God in the Neighborhood
All mission is local to the people of God joining the work of God in a particular place. In Starting Missional Churches Mark Lau Branson and Nicholas Warnes introduce us to seven missional churches while examining common challenges regarding their genesis.
The Work of Leadership
Ronald A. Heifetz and Donald L. Laurie. Leaders do not need to know all the answers. They do need to ask the right questions.
Podcasts
Startup Podcast: Church Planting: The Movement
Reporter Eric Mennel tells the story of this young church plant in a new multi-part series from StartUp. Listen now to the first episode.
The Genesis Podcast
The Podcast for mission developers and church planters in the Episcopal church. All are welcomed!
