Resources - Redeemer City to City

Redeemer Church Planting Manual

Category: Urban Church Planting

The Redeemer Church Planting Manual is an extensive compendium of outlines, lectures, essays, exercises and other materials that prepare...

Planting a Church in the City

Category: Urban Church Planting

What are the common principles for any church plant? This article explores five basic principles.

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Five Ministry Fronts in the City

Category: Urban Church Planting

In order to have the greatest impact on the city, and to reflect all aspects of gospel transformation, we seek to achieve a balance along...

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A Vision for Our Cities (Article)

Category: Urban Church Planting

As the main purveyor of influence to surrounding communities, the city is where culture is formed. The Christian desire to shape culture...

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It Takes a City to Raise a Child

Category: Urban Church Planting

In many ways, cities are the very best places to raise children. The city plays a crucial role in raising children who embrace the Christian faith.

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Why Plant Churches? (Article)

Category: Urban Church Planting

A vigorous and continuous approach to church planting is the only way to guarantee an increase in the number of believers, and is one of...

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Identifying the Idols of the City

Category: Urban Church Planting

In Acts 17, Paul shows that unmasking idols involves reading the “theological skyline” of the city. By understanding the systems of thought...

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Beyond Duct Tape: Holding the Heart Together in a Life of Ministry

Category: Urban Church Planting

Church planting and pastoral ministry can be lonely, stressful, and ambiguous. This resource, written by seasoned church planting...

The Spiritual Life of a Church Planter

Category: Urban Church Planting

Chuck DeGroat discusses the spiritual challenges facing pastors and church-planters. This talk was given to over 120 church planters at...

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Researching your City

Category: Urban Church Planting

How can pastors learn the cultural narrative of their city in order to better preach the Gospel?

This Q&A is reposted courtesy of Desiring God

Annotated Bibliography on Church Planting

Category: Urban Church Planting

Guest contributor Ken Davis of Baptist Bible Seminary provides an extensive, annotated bibliography of 104 texts related to church...

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Unique Challenges Facing Urban Church Planters

Category: Urban Church Planting

While urban settings offer innumerable opportunities for evangelism and growing church plants, there are also many difficulties facing the...

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What Does it Take to Start a Movement? Case study: Ephesus

Category: Urban Church Planting

Paul used multiple approaches to help instigate and sustain growth in his missionary movements, such as engaging in intense outreach...

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Gospel Ecosystems

Category: Urban Church Planting

Tim Keller discusses seven things needed to create a self-sustaining growth of the gospel in the city. This talk was given to over...

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Movements and Ecosystems

Category: Urban Church Planting

A look at how movements work, and how by working together, churches can start movements that can change their cities. This talk was given...

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The Meaning of the City

Category: Urban Church Planting

Jeremiah told the Jewish exiles in Babylon to seek the peace and prosperity of the city they found themselves in. Like New York, it was an...

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Our New Global Culture: Ministry in Urban Centers

Category: Urban Church Planting

This paper surveys the rise of global cities, the culture and dominant worldviews within these cities, and a framework for ministering in...

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A New Kind of Urban Christian

Category: Urban Church Planting

Christians cannot expect to influence the wider culture without living and being active in the city.

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Why Live in the Big City?

Category: Urban Church Planting

One of the most effective ways for Christians today to be "a city on a hill" would be for a large number of believers to move into the...

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Hope for the City

Category: Urban Church Planting

Here we learn the importance of cities, how we should evidence the gospel in word and deed, and seek the joy and the common good of the...

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Blueprint for Revival, Part 1 (1990)

Category: Urban Church Planting

Revivals have spanned nations and denominations. Distorted views of revival, such as heterodoxy, dead orthodoxy and emotionalism, become...

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Why Plant Churches? (Audio)

Category: Urban Church Planting

A crucial strategy for dynamic church renewal and growth in a city is through church planting. Following in the footsteps of Paul and...

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It Takes a Movement to Change a City

Category: Urban Church Planting

A movement happens when churches and denominations come together to proclaim the gospel, plant churches, pray, and partner together to...

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City Focus

Category: Urban Church Planting

The importance of cities for the church today. This talk was given to over 400 church leaders from around the world at the Global...

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Blueprint for Revival, Part 2 (1990)

Category: Urban Church Planting

Five key components - vibrant worship, doctrinal teaching, theological depth, devoted fellowship, and evangelism - can keep a church...

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The New Global Christianity and the Post-Christian West

Category: Urban Church Planting

Is American evangelicalism helping or hindering the growth in world Christianity? What are the patterns giving shape to Christian...

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What is God’s Global Urban Mission?

Category: Urban Church Planting

Tim Keller's plenary address at the 3rd Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization, in Cape Town, South Africa on 20 October...

The Amsterdam Movement

Category: Urban Church Planting

The Amsterdam Movement is an alliance of over 15 churches of various denominations that have been working together in the capital of The...

A Vision for our Cities (Video)

Category: Urban Church Planting

Church planters talk about their heart for the city. (c) 2009

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Manual del Plantador de Iglesias / Church Planting Manual (Spanish)

Category: Urban Church Planting

Guia para plantar nuevas iglesias.

Traducido del ...

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CTC Origins: A Series of Churches in Manhattan

Category: Urban Church Planting

How Redeemer City to City grew out of the planting of Redeemer Presbyterian Church in New York City in 1989.

Andrew Jones: Church Planting is Hard Work, Part One (Video)

Category: Urban Church Planting

Our congregations are often small and fragile. Sometimes we face opposition from without and within the church. We can easily grow weary...

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The Challenge of North American Cities

Category: Urban Church Planting

Tim Keller looks at the past 40 years of North American cities, and discusses four challenges facing the urban North...

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Peter Ong on Calling

Category: Urban Church Planting

Peter Ong is pastoring at Living Faith Community Church, an Asian-American church in Flushing, Queens. He is participating in our...

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A Vision for Church Planting

Category: Urban Church Planting

Reaching global cities to reach the world. (c) 2008

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The City

Category: Urban Church Planting

Isaiah tells a tale of two cities: the strong city and the lofty city. The former is divine, available through salvation, and based on...

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Trinity Church Morningside: Durban, South Africa

Category: Urban Church Planting

Trinity Church Morningside is a new church in Durban, South Africa, in the province of KwaZulu-Natal. The city is the third largest in...

2011 City to City Europe Conference Audio

Category: Urban Church Planting

Audio is available from the 2011 City to City Europe Conference.
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Coaching Urban Church Planters

Category: Urban Church Planting

A movement of church planting would be impossible without the helping roles of trainers, supervisors and coaches. Now Allen Thompson's...

A Letter from Amsterdam

Category: Urban Church Planting

A letter sent from the Reformed Churches of Amsterdam to Redeemer City to City in 2009.

Andrew Jones: Church Planting is Hard Work, Part Two (mp3)

Category: Urban Church Planting

Our congregations are often small and fragile. Sometimes we face opposition from without and within the church. We can easily grow weary...

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Al Barth at Birmingham 2020 Launch Conference

Category: Urban Church Planting

Al Barth spoke about cities and church planting from a global perspective at the 2020 Birmingham Launch Conference in May 2010.

Planting for Christ - Lessons From Europe

Category: Urban Church Planting

Al Barth discusses the lessons he has learned from coaching church planters in cities across Europe.

Specific topics include...

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Theo Visser: Godliness and the Church Planter (mp3)

Category: Urban Church Planting

In a discussion of the pastoral epistles, Theo Visser notes the frequency and urgency with which Paul urges Timothy and Titus to...

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Gert-Jan Roest: Sex and the City - Challenges for the Church (Video)

Category: Urban Church Planting

After the sexual revolution, the church is confronted with many questions about sex and sexuality. It often seems that we either want to...

Andrew Jones: Church Planting is Hard Work, Part Three (Video)

Category: Urban Church Planting

Our congregations are often small and fragile. Sometimes we face opposition from without and within the church. We can easily grow weary...

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