Updated Church Planting Movement Bibliography
Allen Thompson, 2004
Missiology
Allen, Roland, The Spontaneous Expansion of the Church. Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1963
Allen, Roland, Missionary Methods: St Paul’s or Ours?, Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1993
Conn, Harvie M., Planting and Growing Urban Churches, Baker, 1997
Garrison, David, Church Planting Movements, IMB, Richmond, VA.
Garrison, David, , Church Planting Movements: How God is Redeeming a Lost World, 2004
Hesselgrave, David J. Dynamic Religious Movements: Case Studies of Rapidly Growing Religious
Movements Around the World, Baker, 1978
Hesselgrave, David J., Communicating Christ Cross-Culturally. Zondervan, 1978.
Hiebert, Paul G., Cultural Anthropology, Baker, 1988.
Hiebert, Paul G and Eloise Hiebert Meneses, Incarnational Ministry: Planting Churches in Band, Tribal,
Peasant, and Urban Societies, Baker, 1995.
Hodges, Melvin, Growing Young Churches, Moody Press, 1970
Schwarz, Christian A., Natural Church Development, ChurchSmart, 1998
Steffen, Tom, Passing the Baton, The Center for Organizational and Ministry Development.
Change Theory
Adizes, Ichak, Mastering Change, Adizes Institute Publications, 1992.
Bennis, Warren G., Benne, Kenneth D. and Robert, Chin, The Planning of Change., Rinehart &Winston,
1969
Davis, Stanley M., Future Perfect, Addison-Wesley, 1989.
Dodd, Carley H., Dynamics of Intercultural Communication, William C. Brown, 1987.
Goodenough, Ward H. , Cooperation in Change: An Anthropological Approach to Community
Development, Sage 1963
Hoffer, Eric, The True Believer: Thoughts on the Nature of Mass Movements, New American Library of
World Literature, 1958
Hunter, James Davison, To Change the World, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture, University of
Virginia, n.d.
Rogers, Everett M. with Shoemaker, F. Floyd, Communication of Innovations, Free Press, 1971.
Wallace, Anthony F.C., Revitalization Movements, American Anthropologist, 1956.
Essays
Gyger, Terry, Allen Thompson, Church Planting Movement Theory, RCPC, 2003
Kaufmann, Richard, Ingredients of a Church Planting Movement, RCPC, 1996
Keller, Tim, Movement Mindset, RCPC
Keller, Tim, The ‘Missiology’ of Redeemer, 2001
Keller, Tim, Advancing the Gospel into the 21st Century, RCPC, 1999
Keller, Tim, The Multi-Ethnic Church: Thoughts on Redeemer and Its Calling, 1977
Logan, Bob, Dynamics of Church Multiplication Movements, CoachNet Int., 2001
Smith Dwight, Planting Churches: Is it really as hard as it looks?, Co-Mission
Thompson, Paul, Church Multiplication Movements, World Team.
Walker, Edwin, Divine and Human Sides of CP Movements, World Team
Walker, Edwin, Worldview Leadership in the Age of Globalization, 2004
Book Critiques
Keller, Tim, Natural Church Development’s ‘New Paradigm’: Assessment (Schwarz NCD)
Keller, Tim, The Very Large Church: Synopsis and Implications, 2000 (Lyle Schaller, The Very Large
Church)
Keller, Tim, Summary of ‘Can the West be Converted?’ (Lesslie Newbigin)
Keller, Tim, Planting Urban Churches: An overview of overviews, 1998 (Harvie Conn)
Journal Articles
Carnes, Tony, New York’s New Hope: Glorious Urbanism, Christianity Today, December 2004.
Kanter, Rosabeth Moss, Collaborative Advantage: The Art of Alliances, Harvard Business Review, Reprint
94405, July-August, 1994
International Journal of Frontier Missions, Summer 2004 Issue 21:2.
Study Manuals
Keller, Tim and Allen Thompson, Church Planter Manual, RCPC, 2002
Stimulating and Nurturing Church Planting Movements, ICEL.courses@imb.org
Weaver, Jay (editor), Omega Course: Practical Church Planting Training, Alliance for Saturation Church
Planting, n.d.