A growing church is a living church, but much of the attention in church growth today is focused on making big churches bigger. This encouraging new book shows members of small and medium-sized congregations how to revive and expand their ministries as well. Churches of every size tend to plateau in attendance and never break free of their self-imposed limitations or 'growth barriers'. This book gives detailed, practical instructions for breaking through those barriers to new levels of impact and service in the community. The EveryChurch Guide to Growth rallies church leaders and members to develop plans for strength and solid growth in the future.
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Elmer L.Towns is cofounder of Liberty University in Lynchburg, Virginia, and dean of its School of Religion. A best-selling author, he won the ECPA Gold Medallion Book of the Year Award for The Names of the Holy Spirit.
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Some Jesus but Not All? Dangerous Position!,
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This review is from: The Everychurch Guide to Growth: How Any Plateaued Church Can Grow (Paperback)
Was our Lord a marketing and/or sociological expert? Were his apostles the same?
These three church growth experts want us at times to believe that they were, and at others they were not. Witness the statements at times like this one at the end, which seems to be hedging all that has been previously written: "When the church obeys Jesus, it will grow, even though Jesus did not command it to grow. He only expected growth when the right things were done." So, when the pastor(s) do the right Jesus things, growth (numerical to be sure) will happen, and when they don't, stagnation, plateauing, etc. This is doubletalk. Either Jesus backs up these CG procedures or He doesn't. To this reviewer, I'm convinced of the latter. It is one marketing/management/sociological list of three this, five this, eight this, ten this .... items that if you do them then Jesus will bless your church and you will grow. What is bogus is that such as George Barna who have looked at this quantitatively have determined that CG has be deceiving us, because in the last 25-30 years they have not changed the number of American Christians as they contend. (see his book:Boiling Point, page 236.) Also, great deal of sheep stealing making these big churches. (see Chadwick's "Stealing Sheep.") Certainly there are some common-sense things in here that are helpful in caring for souls, e.g. polity styles, assimilation, etc. But to lean towards the pleasing of potential member needs (classic definition of marketing) takes the proclamation of the gospel out of the equation and places control into hands of those who have least knowledge of what the kingdom of God is all about. Creates dangerous "bait and switch) approach with little if no attention ever exerted to switch. Further, non-Biblical view of fellowship, i.e. Greek koinoinia. They use the Schliermachian view of people in common having something together, rather than Biblical view always tied to body and blood communion in Sacrament. Highly not recommended.
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Good a bit hard to understand,
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This review is from: The Everychurch Guide to Growth: How Any Plateaued Church Can Grow (Paperback)
This is a good book on church growth, even though it is hard to understand at some parts. I used this for a class on Evangelism and church Growth and really enjoyed it.
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Whatever is alive will grow. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
multicongregational church, biblical blindness, nongrowing churches, effective evangelistic churches, numerical barriers, growth barriers, managing leader, executive pastor, church growth, conversion growth, large church, worship attendance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Commission, Holy Spirit, Carl Dudley, Jesus Christ, Lyle Schaller, Peter Wagner, World War, Southern Baptist, New Testament, John's Syndrome, Rick Warren, Church Growth Movement, Power Group Syndrome, Billy Graham School, Elmer Towns, John Maxwell, United States, Word of God, First Baptist Church, Christian Life Magazine, Friend Day, God's Word, Southern Seminary, The Healthy Church, Three Foundations New!
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Whatever is alive will grow. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
multicongregational church, biblical blindness, nongrowing churches, effective evangelistic churches, numerical barriers, growth barriers, managing leader, executive pastor, church growth, conversion growth, large church, worship attendance Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Great Commission, Holy Spirit, Carl Dudley, Jesus Christ, Lyle Schaller, Peter Wagner, World War, Southern Baptist, New Testament, John's Syndrome, Rick Warren, Church Growth Movement, Power Group Syndrome, Billy Graham School, Elmer Towns, John Maxwell, United States, Word of God, First Baptist Church, Christian Life Magazine, Friend Day, God's Word, Southern Seminary, The Healthy Church, Three Foundations New!
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- The Healthy Church by C. Peter Wagner on 6 pages
- Making the Small Church Effective by Carl S. Dudley on 4 pages
- The Making of a Leader: Recognizing the Lessons and Stages of Leadership Development by Robert Clinton on page 48, Back Matter (1), and Back Matter (2)
- Evangelism and Church Growth by Elmer L. Towns in Back Matter (1), Back Matter (2), and Back Matter (3)
- The Small Church Is Different! by Lyle E. Schaller on page 39, and Back Matter
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