This page is devoted to very practical tools for planting or cultivating missional churches. Please feel free to download documents, adapt them, and so on. I do ask that you link back to this site if you re-post from these tools and cite where appropriate. Every blessing in your missional endeavors.

PRE-PLANTING

Should I Plant?

Church Planting Manuals Reviewed

Church Planting Prospectus Example (outdated): Austin City Life;

Celebrity Planting: Context not Copycating

Improve Your Contextualization for Mission

MISSIONAL CORE/LAUNCH TEAMS

Missional Discipleship: Reinterpreting the Great Commissions

Building Evangelistic Core Teams

Community Evangelism

Launch/Core Team Covenant

Stages of Organic Growth (or cultivating core teams)

Launch Criteria: Discerning When to “Launch”

Organic Church

MISSIONAL COMMUNITIES

Practices of a Missional Community – I

Practices of a Missional Community – II

Living in the Tension of Mission and Community

Everyday Mission & Community

MISSIONAL LEADERS

Missional Leader Readiness

Where to Office: Church or Home?

Developing Deacons

Deacons Position Paper (Bob Thune)

CHURCH MEMBERSHIP/PARTNERSHIP

Rethinking Church Membership

Members or Parnters: Does Terminology Matter? (read comments)

Why a Partners Class?

Austin City Life Partners Class Material

MISSIONAL CHURCH

Missional Church, Tim Keller

Missional Church Refresher

Rethinking Church: Membership, Community, & Pastoring

Qualifications for Pastor/Elders

Why NOT to Start a Second Service & Why TO Start a Second Service

Keeping the Global in Missional

MISSIONAL MOVEMENTS

14 Observations from Acts on Church Planting Movements

Stetzer on Movements

Driscoll on Movements