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What defines a “New Testament church”?

June 6, 2009

I read a post on another blog today that lists “15 essential steps for changing traditional churches into New Testament churches.”
I’m going to list all 15 here because I really want your comments. However, in order to give credit where it is due, let me make it clear that these are not mine. In fact, I’d [...]

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Current Church Growth info

September 23, 2008

Each year OUTREACH magazine publishes “The Outreach 100″ annual report on the largest and fastest-growing churches in America.
In response to this year’s report, Ed Stetzer, from Lifeway Research, has written a great article called “Learning from America’s Largest and Fastest-Growing Churches” that I think you should read. (It took me about 6 minutes to read [...]

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Growing Smaller with Groups

September 10, 2008

In response to our series “Reasons our church should grow”, Cherryl asked a great question that deserves a separate answer:
A reason for the church to grow is so the many life experiences can be shared to encourage one another and show God’s power. But isn’t it a paradox that the “small group” is the best [...]

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Reasons our church should grow, Part 3

September 10, 2008

This week, leading up to our big fall series, “Listen,” I’m giving reasons why our church should grow. As you come up with reasons, I’ll post them here, too. Let’s try for “100 reasons our church should grow”. You can read the previous posts here:
Part 1 Part 2
10. Stephen wrote:
Well I thought that just like, [...]

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Reasons our church should grow, Part 2

September 9, 2008

This week, leading up to our big fall series, “Listen,” I’m giving reasons why our church should grow. As you come up with reasons, I’ll post them here, too. Let’s try for “100 reasons our church should grow”. You can read the previous posts here:
Part 1
4. Sarah writes:
I think God wants us to grow as [...]

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