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12/31 First, I propose to meet this need for consulting by developing a seminar based Self-Study process to present basic information on church growth
12/31 inviting persons to worship where they arrive as strangers, worship with strangers, leave as strangers, and remain strangers.
12/31 Conversion is more directly related to relational influences on an individual than any other factor.
12/31 Fourth Systemic Problem: Stranger Evangelism
12/31 Asbury called camp meetings “fishing with a large net.”
12/31 It is an gross oversimplification, however, to say that Methodism on the American frontier went “where the people were.”
12/31 As Methodists formed churches, the old timers in the class meeting experienced power struggles with the shift to resident clergy.
12/31 Francis Asbury preached the gospel on the empty prairies during a vast migration of people from urban to rural areas.
12/31 a different adaptation to the prairie environment which is now highly resistant to change.
12/31 An institutional view of the Church is unbiblical.
12/30 Institutional leaders identify a shift in population from rural to urban settings as the cause of rural church decline.
12/30 A church is a living thing and reborn with each new convert; it does not have a single life cycle.
12/30 An institution is a non-living thing; things have a product life cycle.
12/30 Institutions do not make disciples. They have other goals …
12/30 An institutional worldview inhibits disciple-making
12/30 an environmental system which supports multiple generations of disciples
12/30 Each step of the maturational cycle is necessary to develop disciples who make disciples who make disciples.
12/30 … disciple-making as an event, an accidental result due to unknown causes, a mysterious act of God …
12/30 First Systemic Problem: Not Making Disciples
12/30 … without a clear, diagnostic understanding of the four systemic problems, no strategy can hope to overcome …
12/30 … the most significant arena through which disciple-making occurs.
12/30 Half of all United Methodist Churches in the United States …
12/30 … in the midst of a pruning process in our conference.
12/30 … an ambitious “Comprehensive Plan for Church Growth and Development” …
12/30 Demographics of the Ministry Context
12/23 … as much to do with overcoming resistance to change as with innovative methods of evangelism.
12/23 Churches fail to thrive when the Great Commission is not the central priority.
12/23 … is transforming itself to a modified metachurch model …
12/23 In four years they had gained a net growth of two thousand families.
12/23 “It is God’s will that his Church grow …”
12/23 … used the Yoido system, known as the “5×5″ model …
12/23 a failure of the majority of churches to thrive
12/23 In the beginning, west of Eden …
12/23 ABSTRACT 3: The seminars will incorporate the vision, mission and goals of our conference
12/23 ABSTRACT 2: The entire project will function as a gentle antithesis to homeostasis
12/23 ABSTRACT 1: In 2004, I was one of six certified consultants…
12/23 A Caveat: The greatest challenge …
12/16 I’m pleased to be invited and pleased to attend on May 11.
12/16 Foreword: Since 2007 …

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