RESTORING ORGANIC CHURCH LEADERSHIP AND PRACTICE TO ITS RIGHTFUL PLACE IN THE CHURCH
Church Planting Handbook
This book is being used by church planters in Kenya and other countries who are establishing Organic Churches after the manner of the churches planted by Jesus and his Apostles.
What’s Inside:
Ch. 1 - Shared Leadership
The Church Under Jesus
The Church at Jerusalem
Equality of the Apostles
First Among Equals
Paul – Team Player, Not a Monarch
Diotrephes – Monarch, Not a Team Player
Team Leadership at Antioch, Ephesus, and Elsewhere
Ch. 2 - The Advantages of Collegiate Church Goverment
Protection
Manifesting God
Maturity
Unity
Balance
Initiative
Independence
Discernment
Less Burout of Leaders
Less Manipulation
No Personality Cults
Doctrinal Purity
Efficiency
Ch. 3 - Quality of Leaders
How Elders are Chosen
Method of Voting
Pastors, not Just Board Members
Servant Ministers, not Clergy
Examples, not Professionals
Maturity, not Gifting
Ch. 4 - Authority of Leaders
True Submission
True Authority
Ch. 5 - New Testament Pattern for Church Government
A New Covenant Republic, Not a Democracy
Trans-Local Ministers, Not Denominational Oversight
Authority Rests With the Local Body
A Body, Not An Institution
Every Man Ministry
The New Testament Pattern, Diagramed
Growth Through Division and Multiplication
Organic Cross Pollination for Health and Humility
Ch. 6 - How to Do Church
Until Christ is Formed Within You
The Goal of the Christian Faith – And Our Meetings
Ministry in an Organic Setting
Gathering in Jesus’ Name
Emasculation in the Body of Christ
Emasculated Men Need a Good Batonage
Make the Main Thing the Main Thing
Small Groups Meeting Together Without a Mortgage or a Megaphone
Why We [Don’t] Need Sound Systems and the Buildings to Put Them In
Ch. 7 - Vision for Transformation to City-Wide Bodies of Christ with New Testament Government and Ministry
One Body
Biblical Unity and Humility