Manuals
In addition to the resources available in the Library, we have several manuals available for purchase or download. For help with purchasing, please email info@rcpc.com.
Redeemer Church Planting Manual
The Redeemer Church Planting Manual is an
extensive compendium of outlines, lectures, essays, exercises and other
materials that prepare learners for church planting especially in an
urban setting. As with other similar manuals this manual shares the
conviction that church planting is the single "most effective
evangelistic methodology known under heaven" (C.P. Wagner). But most
books on new church development are either too general (telling us why
to do church planting but not how to do it) or too specific (telling us
how to reproduce just one particular kind of church model). This manual
is to equip the reader to think creatively about how to start churches
in any context, culture or people group.
You can buy the Redeemer Church Planting Manual by Tim Keller & Allen Thompson here.
You can also download the Redeemer Church Planting Manual in Spanish, free of charge, here.
Coaching Urban Church Planters
Growing Visionary Leaders, Vital Churches and Multiplication Movements in the City
Coaching, a buzzword in the sports and business communities for some time, has only recently been embraced by church planting practitioners. This late adoption is perhaps not strange since leadership development in the church, ever since the early 19th century when it went to an academic model for training ministers, has focused more on knowing than on doing.
At Redeemer our interest in coaching peaked as we focused on accomplishing our goal of starting several hundred new churches in the city. We knew that a movement of church planting would be impossible without the helping roles of trainers, supervisors and coaches. Now Allen Thompson's manual narrows our understanding of coaching. He indicates that coaching lies at the opposite end of the spectrum of telling or instructing. Coaching, rather, is an approach that awakens awareness and responsibility on the part of the church planter. This is done through a relationship of trust that provides feedback through inquiry.
Reading this manual will not turn you into an expert coach. But it will help you to recognize the enormous potential of coming along side of a person and offering the wisdom of a listening ear.
You can buy the Coaching Urban Planters Manual by Allen Thompson here.
