All mission is local?the people of God joining the work of God in a particular place. In Starting Missional Churches Mark Lau Branson and Nicholas Warnes introduce us to seven missional churches while examining common challenges regarding their genesis. Using stories, interviews with pastors and a look at common preconceived notions of church planting in the West, this guide brings together resources of the missional church conversation with the creativity and energy of those, who are experimenting with diverse planting activities and practices across the country. Curated by a pastor and a professor, this work highlights diverse modern examples of congregations focused on reaching their communities with a missional mindset. Learn from these stories how to build a vibrant, engaging church- one that generates redemptive witness in our neighborhoods and in our world.
"If the church is to remain vital and connected to communities, there has to be a new energy to form missional congregations of people that may have never seen the inside of a traditional church. This is our calling and this book will be a good guide for those in the 1,001 congregations movement as well as the rest of us."
Roy Howard, Presbyterian Outlook, July 30, 2014
"Recognizing that many previous models of church planting are losing their effectiveness in the twenty-first century, Mark Lau Branson and Nicholas Warnes offer a compelling vision of church planting for our times that is deeply rooted in missional theology and in the particularities of the neighborhoods in which churches are planted. Built around the narrative of seven diverse churches that embody this new way of church planting, Starting Missional Churches offers not easy solutions but rather deep wisdom about the genesis of new church communities today, and is essential reading for church planters and everyone who cares about the future of the church."
C. Christopher Smith, coauthor of Slow Church: Cultivating Community in the Patient Way of
