City Reaching Bibliography

City Reaching Resources
Recommended by Eric Swanson

Understanding City-Reaching

City Reaching: On the Road to Community Transformation
Author: Jack Dennison, Publisher: William Carey Library, 1999
City of God, City of Satan
Author: Robert Linthicum, Publisher: Zondervan, 1991
City Impact
Author: Daniel Bernard, Publisher: Chosen Books, 2004
City-wide Prayer Movements
Author: Tom White, Publisher: Vine Books, 2001
Better Together : Restoring the American Community
Author: Robert D. Putnam, Publisher: Simon & Schuster, 2003
Loving Your City Into the Kingdom: City Reaching Strategies for a 21st Century Revival
Author: Ted Haggard and Jack Hayford, Publisher: Regal, 1997
Restoring At-Risk Communities: Doing it Together and Doing it Right
Author: John M. Perkins, Publisher: Baker, 1995, 2000
Signs of Hope in the City
Authors: Carle and Decaro Jr., Publisher: Judson Press, 1999
Somebody Cares
Author: Doug Stringer, Publisher: Regal, 2001
Taking Our Cities For God: How to Break Spiritual Strongholds
Author: John Dawson, Forward by: Jack Hayford, Publisher: Creation House, 1989
The Triumphs of Joseph: How Today’s Community Healers Are Reviving Our Streets and Neighborhoods
Author: Robert L. Woodson, Publisher: Free Press, 1998
The Revolution of Compassion
Authors: Dave Donaldson and Stanley Carlson-Thies, Publisher: Baker Books, 2003

Churches Engaged in Community

The Externally Focused Church
Authors: Rick Rusaw and Eric Swanson, Publisher: Group, 2004
The Church of Irresistible Influence
Author: Robert Lewis, Publisher: Zondervan, 2001
Conspiracy of Kindness
Author: Steve Sjogren, Publisher: Servant Publications, 1993
101 Ways to Reach Your Community
Author: Steve Sjogren, Publisher: Nav Press, 2001
Churches That Make a Difference
Author: Sider, Olson, Unruh, Publisher: Baker Books, 2002
Fresh Wind, Fresh Fire
Author: Jim Cymbala, Publisher: Zondervan, 1997
Meeting Needs, Sharing Christ
Author: Charles Roesel, Publisher: Lifeway, 1995
Restorers of Hope
Author: Amy Sherman, Publisher: Crossway Books, 1997
Street Saints
Author: Barbara J. Elliott, Publisher: Templeton Foundation Press, 2004
The Church That Never Sleeps
Author: Matthew Barnett, Publisher: Nelson, 2000
The Way of the Bootstrapper: Nine Action Steps for Achieving your Dreams
Author: Floyd Flake, Publisher: Harper Press, 1999
Turn Your Church Inside Out, Author: Walt Kallestad, Publisher: Augsburg
Fortress Publishers, 2001
Urban Churches: Vital Signs; Beyond Charity Toward Justice
Author: Nile Harper, Publisher: Eerdmans, 1999
Transforming Power
Author: Robert Linthecum, Publisher: Intervarsity Press, 2003

Theology of City-Reaching / Community Engagement

A Biblical Word for an Urban World
Author: Raymond Bakke, Publisher: Board of International Ministries, 2000
A Theology As Big As the City
Author: Ray Bakke, Publisher: Intervarsity Press, 1997
Building Communities from the Inside Out: A Path Toward Finding and Mobilizing a Community’s Assets
Authors: John P. Kretzmann, John L. McKnight, Publisher: ACTA Publications, 1997
Ministries of Mercy : The Call of the Jericho Road
Author: Timothy J. Keller, Publisher: Zondervan, 1998
Revolution and Renewal
Author: Tony Campolo, Publisher: John Knox Press, 2000
The Unshakable Kingdom and the Unchanging Person
E. Stanley Jones, Publisher: McNett Press, 1972
A Clarified Vision for Urban Mission
Author: Harvie M. Conn, Publisher: Zondervan, 1987
The Rise of Christianity: How the Obscure, Marginal, Jesus Movement Became the Dominant Religious Force in the Western World in a Few Centuries
Author: Rodney Stark, Publisher: Harper, 1997
The Gospel in a Pluralistic Society
Author: Lesslie Newbigin, Publisher: Eerdmans, 1989
An Unstoppable Force
Author: Erwin Raphael McManus, Publisher: Group, 2001
Beyond Charity
Author: John Perkins, Publisher: Baker Books, 1993
Divided by Faith—Evangelical Religion and the Problem of Race in America
Authors: Michael O. Emerson and Christian Smith, Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2000
The Black Church in the African American Experience
Authors: C. Eric Lincoln and Lawrence H. Mamiya, Publisher: Duke University Press, 1996
The Tipping Point—How Little Things Can Make a Big Difference
Author: Malcolm Gladwell, Publisher: Little, Brown and Company, 2000

Church Planting (“Movements Everywhere”)

The Shaping of Things to Come–Frost and Hirsch
Houses that Change the World–Wolfgang Simson
Liquid Church–Pete Ward
The House in the Church…a Return to Simple Church–Bob Fitts
Cultivating a Life for God– Neil ColeThe Global House Church Movement–Rad Zdero
The Celtic Way of Evangelism—George Hunter
House Church Networks–Larry Kreider
Planting New Churches–Ed Stetzer
John Wesley’s Class Meetings–D. Michael Henderson
Community of Kindness—Steve Sjogren