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  • Planting by Pastoring

  • A Vision for Starting a Healthy Church
  • By: Nathan Knight
  • Narrated by: Marcus Jackman
  • Length: 3 hrs and 26 mins
  • 4.7 out of 5 stars (6 ratings)

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Planting by Pastoring

By: Nathan Knight
Narrated by: Marcus Jackman
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Publisher's summary

Recentering the Goal of Pastoral Ministry to Cultivate Christ-Treasuring Church Plants

As churches rapidly expand, Christians risk viewing the church with an entrepreneurial mindset. Church planters can be tempted to fixate on gaining numbers and achieving financial stability as their only metrics for success. They fail to focus on lifting up Christ’s people within the church.

In Planting by Pastoring, author Nathan Knight challenges our view of church planting and centers the goal of pastoral ministry on a basic biblical foundation: a church plant is in fact a church, and a planter is in fact a pastor. A healthy church plant is not measured by size, speed, or level of self-sufficiency but by good pastoring that produces faith, fruit, and a flourishing community. Once pastors and church leaders redefine their plant as a church, their ministry will begin to align with Jesus’s mission to shepherd the flock and bring glory to God alone.

  • Provides Wisdom: This book reminds church planters of the heart of the church and the core purpose of pastors
  • Offers a Unique Perspective: Addresses foundational elements of church planting other books fail to address
  • Appeals to Pastors, Elders, and Church Planters: Great for those in the process of planting a church

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©2023 Nathan Knight (P)2023 Crossway
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Great pastoral and church planting resource

I am a pastor, missionary in the Dominican republic, and this book was very helpful as we walk through our own church planting process.

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The Book I Wish I had Before Planting

This is such a beautiful book for those thinking about church planting. It appears unimpressive and then you begin to see that it is pointing to deep foundational realities that are easy to assume and therefore miss. I highly commend it not only to this who are planting but those who anyway want to participate in the process of healthy church planting.

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Solid Overall

This book covers church planting and is a decent help in learning more about what church plants should be. If you are planting a church the book may guide you through some early decisions you need to make.

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