Posted in Church Growth, Church Planting on May 2, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Yesterday, I was privileged to hear and learn about the state of the American church from David Olson. His book, that was recently published by Zondervan is described as:
Groundbreaking research based on a national database of over 200,000 churches reveals that the overall population growth rate far outpaces the church’s rate of growth. What does [...]
Posted in Church Growth on April 2, 2008 | No Comments »
…Make Disciples.
There is a huge philosophical danger (if we don’t understand that God builds the church) as we plant our churches. Church Planters need to decide to build reproducing, mature people called disciples.
When we just focus on planting a church we run the danger of having a group of people coming to [...]
Posted in Church Growth on October 12, 2007 | No Comments »
2007 Outreach magazine report: Corrected October 8, 2007
Here are the top 40:
Iglesia Cristiana Segadores de Vida (Hollywood, FL) :: Ruddy Gracia
Community of Faith (Cypress, TX) :: Mark Shook
Valley Bible Fellowship (Bakersfield, CA) :: Ron Vietti
Community Christian Church (Naperville, IL) :: Dave Ferguson
The Richmond Outreach Center (Richmond, VA) :: Geronimo Aguilar
New Life Church (Conway, AR) :: [...]
Posted in Church Growth on August 18, 2007 | No Comments »
In the era of big-box churches, small, multicultural congregations that focus on serving those in need in their neighborhoods are growing quickly.
By Jeff Strickler, Star Tribune
Posted in Church Growth on August 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I was reading a pastor from “down under” (Mark Edwards) today and thought some barriers his blog underscored were note worthy.
It seemed to me that the number one limiting factor on this list is either the pastor or things that the pastor can control. I find that incredibly important because in my experience I [...]
Mark Bjorlo
Jeff Gauss
Bob Evans
Joel Nelson