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Your Church Can Grow

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Very few books that I have read as a church planter have encouraged me as much as Wagner's "Your Church Can Grow". Originally written in the 70's and updated in the early 1980's, the principles shared in this book are timeless. Church planters in the 21st century will be given a SOLID foundation and understanding of what it takes to launch successfully and as important GROW your church. In fact, those pastors and lay leaders looking for a starting point to begin the plan to grow your church will not find a better book to begin with. Along with leadership development, understanding the "science" as Wagner explains it, of church growth will allow church leaders to fill their toolbox with the right right equipment! How do I know? I am the pastor of The Pointe in Albany, Georgia - a new church start (March 2006)that in its first year has grown to an average of over 630 in weekly worship attendance. The principles in this book helped us start with a solid footing to build The Pointe. A must read for new church planters and leaders looking for effective strategies in growing their congregations.

Is your church healthy and growing or stagnant and dying? If your church is afflicted with remnant theology, spiritual naval gazing, pastoral timidity, hyper-cooperativism, or terminal ethnikitis, changes are it's already dying on the vine. On the other hand, if your church is growing it's probably ad healthy church. "Healthy churches, like healthy people," says the author, "exhibit certain vital signs." Wagner has his own list of 7 "signs" that lead can be taken as leading to good health and gives many illustrations of churches that exhibit and/or don't exhibit those signs. [Good material for preaching here.]