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4 Kinds of Church Members

4 Kinds of Church Members and How They Relate to Your Church’s Mission 4 kinds of church attenders – A helpful way to shepherd your people with relationship to the mission of Jesus is to ask two simple questions: 1) Is the person clear about the… View Post

When Disruption Is a Good Thing

Scott Couchenour @ServingStrong Disruptive cultural forces are opportunities for the Church. #align4 #Millennials 10:37 AM – 22 Oct 2013

Hartford Institute

An excellent resource for studying church growth patterns research and resources for church growth. http://www.hartfordinstitute.org/index.html

Fastest Growing Churches

Independent charismatic churches (23%) lead the annual Church Growth Today list of the 100 Largest Churches for the period 2009-2010. While denomi-national churches lead the largest churches (51%) list the non-denominational churches were very close (49%). Independent non-charismatic churches were the 2nd largest group of churches with a total of 16% of the churches. When combined withContinue reading “Fastest Growing Churches”

The Myth of the Persecuted American Church

American Christians have a peculiar fascination with the Persecuted Church. We love books such as Radical and The Insanity of God that show what it is like to completely sell out to God and sacrifice everything for the Gospel. I think there are several reasons we love this. We love seeing other Christian’s faithfulness andContinue reading “The Myth of the Persecuted American Church”

Lot of Talk but Little Changes

The explosion of communications devices and technology in the past decade has substantially expanded the amount of public dialogue related to all kinds of issues, including religion. Yet, even though Americans spend lots of time discussing and debating religious beliefs and spiritual practices, a new survey by The Barna Group shows that all of thatContinue reading “Lot of Talk but Little Changes”