Church Planting in the Secular West Learning from the European Experience

includes index and biblioraphy

1. Church Planting and its Reasons ..............10 The roots of Church Planting ............10 The Classic Paradigm : A Three - Stage Process ...........16 Modern Evangelical Paradigm : Church Planting as an Instrument of Evangelization ................31 Late - Modern Evangelical Paradigm : Church Planting as Innovation ...................43 2. Planting Better Churches ...............50 Mission and Confession............50 Terminology ................54 Christendom Divided ...............57 Historical Examples of Confessional Church Planting in Europe ...................61 Missiological Reflections ..........88 3. Planting more Churches .............111 Defining Growth ..........111 The Missiological Framework ..........113 The logic of Church growth theory ...............123 Evaluating Religious Market Theory on Three Levels .........129 Empirical Evidence ..............146 4. Planting new Churches ........181 Crisis and Renewal ..............181 The Complexity of the Task ..........185 Structures of Expectation .........199 Three Biotopes of Renewal .........224 Church planting as an Instrument of Renewal ............240 5. In Defense of Church planting in Europe .............242 Justifications of Church planting ...........242 Biblical arguments for Church planting ...........242 Church Planting as a Theo-Logical Consequence ...........256