I’ve never planted a church before so right from the get-go I felt like a fish that had just jumped out of a fishbowl and into the ocean.

There are so many models by which to establish a church, and none of them are right or wrong. We’ve come to realise that the best model is the one that God tells you to use and helps you think through.

Our model is like that. I’ve not read anything in all the research I’ve done that describes what we are attempting to do. For some that might seem foolish. Why not adopt a tried and true method for church planting? The answer is that none of the things we looked at matched what we knew God was calling us to do.

We’ll talk about our model another day, but here are some of the books we read that helped us navigate the ocean we found ourselves in. There were of course many other resources we engaged with, but these are church planting specific.

We hope this list will be an effective resource to those, who like us, wondered how on earth you plant a church.