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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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How to Measure Ministry Progress

by Dan on August 11, 2009

I saw this quote at Between Two Worlds, who got it from Tony Payne. It speaks volumes to churches that rely on the same marketing tactics and progress reports that are being utilized by corporate culture, rather than biblical measures as defined in this quote: The measure of how ministry is progressing in your church [...]

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