Church Planting Books

Church Planting

Steve Nicholson's Recommendations

Coaching Church Planters Manual
Steve Nicholson
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Audio Handbook for Pastors and Church Planters Manual
Lightning Atkinson
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Jay Pathak's Recommendations

Community of Kindness
Sjogren and Lewin
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Doug Anderson's Recommendations

Heroic Leadership
Chris Lowney
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Planting Missional Churches
Ed Stetzer

Ten most common mistakes made by new church starts
Jim Griffith/Bill Easum

Church Planting from the ground up
Edited by Tom Jones

Jeff Anderle's Recommendations

Starting a New Church: The Church Planter's Guide to Success.
Andy Stanley

Andy Stanley is the senior pastor of North Pointe Community Church in Alpharetta, GA

This book has been unbelievably useful in helping our staff ask the right questions about adding, tweaking and killing programs in our church. Multnomah, ISBN 1590523735.

Communicating For A Change
Andy Stanley

This is one of the most practical books on homiletics I've ever read. Multnomah, ISBN 1590525140

Creating Community
Andy Stanley

The simple process outlined in this book will help anyone tweak their small group system to run more effectively. I've been doing small groups for twenty years and I can't tell you how many "Oh yeah, that's what needs to be done" moments I had with this book. Multnomah 1590523962.