New Churches

Rev Dr Will Foulger is vicar of St Nics, Durham, and was formerly the Director of Mission and Evangelism at Cranmer Hall, DurhamJoshua Cockayne is a Lecturer of Mission and Evangelism and the Director of the Centre for Church Planting Theology and Research at Cranmer Hall, Durham.

• Contributors ixIntroduction: Why on Earth a Theology about Starting New Churches? 1Part One: Missiology: New Churches and the missio Dei1 Do Church Planters Believe in the missio Dei? 21Mark Collinson2 (Why) We Need to Talk About Method 34Mark Powley3 Telling Stories for Transformation: Theodrama and Discipleship Formation in Church Planting Contexts 47Helen Miller4 Church Planting, Community and the Triune God of Grace 62Joshua Cockayne5 Who is Doing the Planting? Understanding Human Agency while Keeping the Focus on the Work of the Spirit 73James Butler6 ‘Don’t offer help … ask for it’: Towards an Ethics of Church Planting in Conversation with Aquinas 86Beth HoneyReflections on Part One 96

"I am so grateful for this book. It is a rich nursery of insights and reflections aerating and fertilising the soil where new churches are emerging and growing. These reflections deepen the roots of our thinking and praxis as we uncover the depths and breadth of this divine movement of God in our generation. Dig and discover!"