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Topic: Church growth

December 21, 2009

Will Willimon: Churches can love their denominational heritage and also grow

Purpose-driven approaches to church growth say we should ditch the denominational label. This is exactly the wrong way to go.

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March 2, 2010

Tuesday's News & Ideas

  • How do churches die?
  • Marginalized in the UK
  • Churchgoer to church burner
  • Squabble in Phoenix
  • Great Gathering
  • New ghost towns
  • Tinsley’s turbulent year
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December 22, 2009

Tuesday's News & Ideas

  • Evangelicals try to save Detroit
  • Controversy surrounds Pius’ sainthood
  • Where, oh, where have the leaders gone?
  • The power of magical thinking
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March 10, 2010

Anthony B. Robinson: The pastor (and Jesus) as cage-fighter

Maybe the new, counter-intuitive formula for church growth is this: be a stark alternative to whatever the dominant culture offers.

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March 19, 2009

Thursday's News & Ideas

  • Storm over pope's condom remarks
  • Humanist congregations?
  • Blair: governments have to "do God"
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January 27, 2010

Will Willimon: Anything worth doing for God is worth counting.

There may be churches that don’t care about growth. But these can’t possibly be Methodist.

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December 14, 2009

Tom Arthur: How do I integrate a mainline heritage with church growth?

I became a Methodist on purpose. But church growth strategies want me to leave the label behind.

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February 9, 2010

James Howell: Church growth via luck

I grew a church big by being placed near a new housing development and bumping into a good-looking, gregarious couple that had just moved in.

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