LINDA BERGQUIST has been a church planter and church planting teacher for twenty-five years. She also has experience in the area of church consultations and urban ministry to the poor and assists her husband, who is a ministry center director in the Lower Haight district of San Francisco. ALLAN KARR is currently an associate professor of missional/church planting at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary and a practitioner of church planting and community development. Allan has also served for ten years as a national missionary of the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.

• Figures and Tables ixAbout Leadership Network xiForeword by Alan Hirsch xiiiPreface xvii1 The Once and Future Church 12 Acknowledging Self 173 Cultivating Community 334 Patterns That Honor God 515 Designing Around Beliefs 676 Releasing Communitas 797 Designing in Culture 958 Embracing Culture 1139 A Palette of Models 12510 Discovering Congruency 14511 Organizing by Design 15912 A New Way of Organizing 177Notes 191Acknowledgments 201About the Authors 205Index 207

LINDA BERGQUIST has been a church planter and church planting teacher for twenty-five years. She also has experience in the area of church consultations and urban ministry to the poor and assists her husband, who is a ministry center director in the Lower Haight district of San Francisco. ALLAN KARR is currently an associate professor of missional/church planting at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary and a practitioner of church planting and community development. Allan has also served for ten years as a national missionary of the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.

• Figures and Tables ixAbout Leadership Network xiForeword by Alan Hirsch xiiiPreface xvii1 The Once and Future Church 12 Acknowledging Self 173 Cultivating Community 334 Patterns That Honor God 515 Designing Around Beliefs 676 Releasing Communitas 797 Designing in Culture 958 Embracing Culture 1139 A Palette of Models 12510 Discovering Congruency 14511 Organizing by Design 15912 A New Way of Organizing 177Notes 191Acknowledgments 201About the Authors 205Index 207

LINDA BERGQUIST has been a church planter and church planting teacher for twenty-five years. She also has experience in the area of church consultations and urban ministry to the poor and assists her husband, who is a ministry center director in the Lower Haight district of San Francisco. ALLAN KARR is currently an associate professor of missional/church planting at Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary and a practitioner of church planting and community development. Allan has also served for ten years as a national missionary of the North American Mission Board of the Southern Baptist Convention.

• Figures and Tables ixAbout Leadership Network xiForeword by Alan Hirsch xiiiPreface xvii1 The Once and Future Church 12 Acknowledging Self 173 Cultivating Community 334 Patterns That Honor God 515 Designing Around Beliefs 676 Releasing Communitas 797 Designing in Culture 958 Embracing Culture 1139 A Palette of Models 12510 Discovering Congruency 14511 Organizing by Design 15912 A New Way of Organizing 177Notes 191Acknowledgments 201About the Authors 205Index 207