Getting Started: A Practical Guide to Church Planting [Paperback]

Felicity Dale (Compiler)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 10, 2003

This practical guide will help you change the way you view church and church planting. This manual is packed with information, biblical content, case studies and insights. But most of all it contains a challenge that anyone can be involved in advancing the Kingdom of God by starting a simple church in their home. The text flows as you'd expect from a normal book. But supporting it are a host of extra quotes from others involved in church life.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Karis Publishing, Inc. (February 10, 2003)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971804036
• ISBN-13: 978-0971804036
• Product Dimensions: 11 x 8.2 x 0.4 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (7 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #847,730 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Felicity Dale trained at Barts Hospital in London where along with her husband, Tony, she helped pioneer simple church concepts while in medical school and later in the East End of London. Now living in the United States, Felicity and Tony are actively engaged in training church planters. Felicity is a cofounder of House2House magazine, author of the Getting Started manual on planting house churches, and has coauthored several books with Tony, including The Rabbit and the Elephant, and Simply Church. Felicity speaks about the principles of simple church throughout the world. She and Tony have four grown children and live in Austin,
Texas.

Websites etc.
Blog:www.simplychurch.com
Website: www.house2house.com
Social network: www.simplechurch.com
Twitter: felicitydale

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Helpful Introduction, May 12, 2009

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M. Watson (Austin, TX) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Getting Started: A Practical Guide to Church Planting (Paperback)

Surprisingly enough the title of the book gives a strong clue as to what you will find inside. If you are simply looking for "information" about house/simple churches, then you may be disappointed. If however, you are wanting to really grow in living out this lifestyle as the church, then I believe you will find Tony & Felicity's material very helpful. It can be intimidating and confusing to step away from a model of doing church that has held sway for most of the church's history. This book will give you something to hold onto (in addition to Jesus as the Head!), and provide a framework to at least get started and from which the Spirit can also guide you.

3 of 4 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars nothing new in the hosue church discussion, February 6, 2008

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Darrell Horn (richmond, texas, united states) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Getting Started: A Practical Guide to Church Planting (Paperback)

This 15 chapter book includes a variety of chapter titles, related to the basics of a functional church and church planting. This book is for the beginner who had no exposure to house church planting. Someone who is well-read on the subject would find this book full of previously published ideas. If you are looking for a scholarly resource on the whole house church discussion you will not find it here. This handbook is for those with no exposure to the house church concept or discussion.

When the contents of the chapters are analyzed, it is easy to quickly realize that most of the material presented in the book is from other authors. This handbook on getting started in house church planting adds nothing new to the discussion. The material presented is a rehash of previously published ideas and discussions. This book is a first primer, nothing more.

Most of the material in the book is from other sources with a running comments added. For example: pages 8-12 is a lengthy quote from David Garrison's booklet "Church Planting Movements". the International Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention has used this material to train missionaries for over a decade. Garrison is an IMB missionary.

Another example: pages 134-138 "the m.a.w.l. principle" has also been used to train IMB missionaries for years. Yet, when explained origin of the material is not cited at all.

Another example: page 87 "the p.o.u.c.h. church" was developed by Curtis Sargent previously with the IMB but credit is not given to him as the originator of the concept.

There are many other examples of previously cited materials.

5.0 out of 5 stars A very practical guide to a "new" view of church, May 15, 2009

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Rachel Smith (Texas) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Getting Started: A Practical Guide to Church Planting (Paperback)

This book offers solid and easy-to-understand guidance for acting on the theory of simple church. It is and informative, well-written and motivating read.