Crisis and Resilience among Church Planters in Europe
Church planting – the creation of new Christian communities for missionary reasons – is becoming increasingly accepted among the larger churches and denominations in Europe. As church plants in the secular parts of Europe are usually under-resourced, and remain small, the normalization of this entre...
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Interlibrary Loan: | Interlibrary Loan for the Fachinformationsdienste (Specialized Information Services in Germany) |
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2018
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Mission studies
Year: 2018, Volume: 35, Issue: 3, Pages: 366-388 |
| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Europe
/ Mission (international law
/ Church congregation
/ Founding
/ Resilience (Personality trait)
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| RelBib Classification: | KBA Western Europe RB Church office; congregation RJ Mission; missiology |
| Further subjects: | B
church planting
leadership
resilience
sustainability
crisis
spirituality
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Presumably Free Access Volltext (Verlag) |
| Summary: | Church planting – the creation of new Christian communities for missionary reasons – is becoming increasingly accepted among the larger churches and denominations in Europe. As church plants in the secular parts of Europe are usually under-resourced, and remain small, the normalization of this entrepreneurial approach of church and mission raises the question of its sustainability. Part of the answer to this question lies in the resilience of church planters; that is, those who lead these enterprises. In this paper we present the results of a qualitative study of European church planters, with a view to their coping with what often appears to be a mixture of high expectations, unclear structures, and a difficult “market.” This research shows the particular nature of crises in the life of a church planter, while identifying sources of resilience. Its results are relevant both for the assessment of church planting projects, and for the training and coaching of church planters. |
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| Physical Description: | Online-Ressource |
| ISSN: | 1573-3831 |
| Contains: | In: Mission studies
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1163/15733831-12341590 |