Planting Missional Churches is an instruction book for planting biblically faithful and culturally relevant churches. It addresses the ôhow-toö and ôwhyö issues of church planting by providing practical guidance through all the phases of a church plant while taking a missional look at existing and emerging cultures.

Rick Warren says, "Ed Stetzer is on of the best informed, practical minded, and field-tested church planters that I know."

Missional implies taking the methods of a missionary--being indigenous to the culture, seeking to understand and learn, adapting to the mission field--but planting the biblical form of the church.