Churches have tried all kinds of ways to attract new and younger members revised vision statements, hipper worship, contemporary music, livelier sermons, bigger and better auditoriums. But there are still so many people who arent being reached, who dont want to come to church. And the truth is that attendance a church on Sundays does not necessarily transform lives Gods presence in our hearts is what changes us. Leaders and laypeople everywhere are realizing that they need new and more powerful ways to help them spread Gods Word.

According to international church starter and pastor Neil Cole, if we want to connect with young people and those who are not coming to church, we must go where people congregate. Cole shows readers how to plant the seeds of the Kingdom of God in the places where life happens and where culture is formed restaurants, bars, coffeehouses, parks, locker rooms, and neighborhoods. Organic Church offers a hands-on guide for demystifying this new model of church and shows the practical aspects of implementing it.

While it may seem revolutionary, this model of church brining Gods message where people are rather than expecting them to show up at church is in keeping with the message of Jesus, who lived among the people of his time. Organic Church shows how we can return to those ancient roots by letting the church be alive, organic, growing, spreading in the most likely and unlikely places.

Table of Contents

About Leadership Network

Foreword Leonard Sweet

Preface

Introduction

Part 1: Roots of the Organic Church

Chapter 1: Ride Out with Me!

Chapter 2: Awakening to a New Kind of Church

Chapter 3: The Zombie Bride Lives!

Chapter 4: A Dangerous Question

Part 2: The Organic Nature of the Kingdom of God

Chapter 5: Kingdom 101: You Reap What You Sow . . . and You Eat What You Reap

Chapter 6: An Enchanted Kingdom with Magic Seeds, Fast-Growing Trees, and a Beautiful Bride to Rescue

Chapter 7: We All Began as Zygotes

Part 3: From the Microscope to the Telescope

Chapter 8: Mapping the DNA of Christs Body

Chapter 9: Epidemic Expansion Starts in the Genes

Part 4: The Epidemic Kingdom and How it Spreads

Chapter 10: It Takes Guts to Care for People

Chapter 11: Me and Osama Are Close

Chapter 12: The How-To of Spreading the Epidemic

Part 5: The Call to Organic Church

Chapter 13: Falling with Style

Chapter 14: Tales That Really Mattered

Notes

Acknowledgments

About the Author

Subject Index

Scriptural Index

Endorsements

In an age where millions are saying God yes, church no! most of us instinctively feel that church as we know it prevents church as God wants it. But where, exactly, is the catch? Where do we go from here? Neil Cole expertly places a thrilling invitation before us to join probably the most exciting spiritual pilgrimage going on today: the global migration of a church on the way back home. Come and dial in!

Wolfgang Simson, Author

I heartily recommend this book. It is packed with deep insights; you will find no fluff in it. Among the books on church planning, it offers a rare combination of attributes: it is biblical and well written, its model has proven effective, and it is authored by a practitioner rather than an observer or an ivory-tower theoretician.

Curtis Sergeant, Director of Church Planting, Saddleback Church

About the Author

Neil Cole is a church starter and pastor, and founder and executive director of Church Multiplication Associates, which has helped start over seven hundred churches in thirty-two states and twenty-three nations in six years. He is an international speaker and the author of Cultivating a Life for God.