I was at Northland this weekend, and thoroughly enjoyed browsing the shelves of the book store. With all of the good books that I was reading while I was a student, I cannot say that I appreciated what was available in the campus store. However, now that I am away, I do not commonly run across even a few dozen books that all catch my eye simultaneously, as happened at Northland, so it was a rare treat. After some time, I finally picked up two books: one of them (John, Acts from the Zondervan Illustrated Bible Backgrounds Commentary) was recently recommended to me. The other one (To the Golden Shore: The Life of Adoniram Judson) was one that I have been wanting to get for some time.
In the process of browsing, I spent a little bit of time perusing a section that I have largely overlooked in the past--that of cross-cultural ministry and church planting. Because I am largely unfamiliar with books of this nature, but now desire to read some of them in preparation for planting a church in Green Bay, I was wondering if I could get some help from any of you who are more familiar with them. What are some of the best cross-cultural and church planting books you have read? I would appreciate your feedback (even if you do not read this post for several months, or if you should happen to read another good book in the future and should also happen to think of me).
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Josh,
Last year/last semester in Church Planting 1, "To the Golden Shore" was one of the required books for the class. After reading it, we had a list of questions/passages to read to analyze AJ method of ministry/church planting. So you just got a good book to read for cross cultural church planting. I may be able to get you that list if you want. Let me know at goyestephen@gmail.com. Also there is the book I was telling you about on Sat. "The YBH Handbook of Church Planting." "Planting Growing Churches" was another one we had to read last semester but that would be lower on the list as they had some issues in the book. We didn't have to read all of it. There was some good in it though so you may want to get it and sift through it. You could also get in contact with Dick Fellars here at Northland. He teaches the Church Planting class and would be really glad to help you in any way possible. Hope that helps.
Melvin Hodges: The Indigenous Church - I greatly appreciated this book. It's really good, short, and cheap. Link below.
Also, I've heard good things about Surprising Insights of the Unchurched by Thomas Rainer. I haven't read it personally.
http://www.christianbookstore.us/BookInfo.asp?ISBN=0882435272
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