Topic: Church growth
March 19, 2009
Thursday's News & Ideas
- Storm over pope's condom remarks
- Humanist congregations?
- Blair: governments have to "do God"
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.
July 21, 2010
Wednesday's News & Ideas
- UMC numbers
- Entrepreneurs and vulnerability
- Catholics, come home
- Home churches in Colorado
- Doing what God called her to do
- Check your guns at the door
- Clink. Clank. Ringers!
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.
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.
August 31, 2010
Scott Benhase: Praying for church growth among Episcopalians
Growing churches don’t focus on growth as such. They focus on mission.
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.
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
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
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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