Church Planting for Reproduction

By Samuel D. Faircloth

Book Overview

The task of church planting requires the wisdom of a practitioner and the logic of a strategist. With his years of experience planting churches, and his extensive research on the subject, the author... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801035589
• ISBN13: 9780801035586
• Release Date: January 1991
• Publisher: Baker Pub Group
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 9.0" x 0.8" x 5.8"

Customer Reviews

Church Planting Using the PERT system

Faircloth, a former missionary to Europe and Portugal, maps out a strategy for producing churches that reproduce themselves. Utilizing Hesselgrave's "Pauline Cycle" and Patterson's "Obedience Oriented Teaching," he develops a PERT chart to evaluate program effectiveness. He does a good job of describing the various phases of church planting (preparatory, pioneer, growth and organization, and reproduction). He also demonstrates the challenge of the growth stage -- i.e. there are several major components that must happen at the same time. Baker Books includes an 11 X 17 PERT chart as a reference. Faircloth uses C. Peter Wagner's definition of a mature church. Not a church that is self-supporting, self-governing, and self-propagating, but one that 1. lives for others, 2. can take care of itself, 3. and is relevant to its cultural situation. This book, though out of print, is a good overview of the church planting process. Its value lies in the way Faircloth makes the planter "think" about church planting. I recommend it for every church planter's library.