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Church planters will find the quality characteristics named in 12 Pillars of a Healthy Church and The Seed-Planting Church, Nurturing Churches to Health to be the skeleton on which all activities hang. Instead of planting a church which perpetuates unnecessary traditional and institutional patterns, and committees and programs which direct the church, the church is planted and structured on the basis of Body of Christ interaction through small group applicational/relational Bible studies.

Instead of evaluating itself on the basis of ordinary success standards and organizational goals and priorities, the church is planted with the objective to build the 12 pillars as an infrastructure which will make each member accountable to each other, according to Biblical requirements and principles. This is a New Testament model which emphasizes quality, which will be followed by quantity.

Three other books are integral to the building of 12 quality characteristics and leading indicators of a healthy church: God Says, "MOVE" - Go Where He Leads, which provides the theology and practice of mission. God Says, "MOVE" will show how the acceptance of institutional Christianity/churchianity has harmed the church, and how the church can be planted with Biblical Christianity as its foundation. God Says, "MOVE" also presents the mission statement for church planting. God Says, "MOVE" , 12 Pillars of a Healthy Church and The Seed-Planting Church, Nurturing Churches to Health reveal the goal for church planting as identified in Acts 14:21-25. Natural Church Development, informs the church planter of the unique quality characteristics which Christian Schwarz of Germany discovered in studying 1000 churches in 32 countries, when he learned that the concept of small groups was the common denominator of all healthy churches. The Seed-Planting Church is a book which Robert Logan says "is in many ways a ground-breaking book to help leaders think differently about church and how they carry out its ministries to accomplish God's intended result...Filled with practical insights, and deeply challenging...Churches that take Werning's principles to heart and strategically focus on planting, watering and fertilizing will find the harvest growing proportionately larger as they shift their focus outward - for the work of farming and harvesting is done out in the fields, not in the barn."

We will be glad to send you these books on consignment! We believe they present a true Biblical theology of missions for church planters.

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