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George Barna

Numerical growth as a double standard

by Dan on October 25, 2009

I’ve been reading Why We Love the Church: In Praise of Institutions and Organized Religion lately, and I ran across a great point I wanted to share: “Fix-the-church books almost always figure that declining church attendance … means the church has messed something up. Even though the new crop of church books decry the old [...]

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Pagan Christianity

by Dan on October 20, 2008

This is my first post on Frank Viola and George Barna’s book entitled Pagan Christianity?: Exploring the Roots of Our Church Practices. Both Barna and Viola have been strong voices in the Christianity 2.0 dialogue. The authors contend that because of pagan influence and five centuries of tradition following it, the church today has become [...]

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