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RECOMMENDED BOOKS AND WEBSITES

Books

    • From Zero to Eighty: Innovative Ideas for Planting, Olu Brown
    • Church for the Unchurched, George G. Hunter, III
    • The Nomadic Church, Bill Easum, Pete Theodore
    • UnChristian: What a New Generation Thinks About Christianity, David Kennaman
    • The Habits of Highly Effective Churches, George Barna
    • Deepening Your Effectiveness, Dan Glover & Claudia Lavy
    • The Forgotten Ways, Allen Hirsch
    • Culture Shift, Robert Lewis, Wayne Cordeiro
    • Spiritual Entrepreneurs, Michael Slaughter
    • Organizing Genius: The Secrets of Creative Collaboration, Warren Bennis
    • Built to Last: Successful Habits of Visionary Companies, James C. Collins & Jerry I. Porras
    • Growing Spiritual Redwoods, William M. Easum & Thomas G. Bandy
    • Reinventing American Protestantism: Christianity in the New Millennium, Donald E. Miller
    • The New Reformation: Tomorrow Arrived Yesterday, Lyle E. Schaller
    • Ten Most Common Mistakes Made By New Church Starts, Jim Griffith, Bill Easum
    • Church Planting for a Greater Harvest, C. Peter Wagner
    • The Power of Vision, George Barna
    • Nine Keys to Effective Small Group Leadership, Carl George
    • The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership, John C. Maxwell
    • On – Prayer Leadership, Dale Galloway
    • Moving Off the Map, Thomas G. Bandy
    • Developing the Leader Within You, John C. Maxwell
    • Developing the Leaders Around You, John C. Maxwell
    • 44 Questions for Church Planters, Lyle Schaller
    • Planting Growing Churches for the 21st Century, Aubrey Malphurs
    • A Multi-site Road Trip: Exploring the New Normal, Warren Bird
    • Planting Fast-Growing Churches, Stephen Gray
    • African American Church Growth, Carlyle Fielding Stewart, III
    • Starting a New Church, Ralph Moore
    • Churches that Multiply, Towns/Porter
    • Planting New Churches in a Postmodern Age, Ed Stetzer
    • Multi-Site Revolution, Surratt, Ligon, Bird
    • Next Church Now: Creating New Faith Communities, Craig Miller
    • Church Planting Landmines, Nebel and Rohrmayer
    • High Definition Churches, Ron Sylvia
    • Building a Healthy Multi-ethnic Church, Mark DeYmaz
    • Go Big With Small Groups, Bill Easum and John Atkinson
    • The Prodigal God: Recovering the Heart of the Christian Faith, Timothy Keller
    • Organic Leadership, Cole Neil
    • Starting New Churches on Purpose: Strategies for the 21st Century, Ron Sylvia
    • Full Disclosure: Exposing Church Planting Blind Spots, Stephen Gray and Barry Smith
    • Multi-site Churches, Scott McConnell
    • Viral Churches: Helping Church Planters Become Movement Makers, Ed Stetzer
    • Untamed: Reactivating a Missional Form of Discipleship, Debra Hirsch

WEB SITES:

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(Antioch School of Church Planting and Leadership Development):