Archive for the ‘Think Ahead’ Category

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June 24, 2006

Church Growth: God Makes it Grow

This is part nine in a continuing series, Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell? One of the arguments I hear again and again against the whole idea of church growth ...

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June 15, 2006

Quantity is Job 1

This is part eight in a continuing series, Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell? Quantity is Job 1. That’s the title of one of my favorite albums from the now-defunct ...

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June 14, 2006

Why Churches Should Care About Numbers

This is part seven in a continuing series, Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell? Numbers are important because they are a sign of effectiveness (notice I said a sign, not ...

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June 13, 2006

Numbers are People, Not Evil

This is part six in a continuing series, Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell? “A church that has no interest at all in increasing its number of converts is, in ...

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June 12, 2006

It’s Not Always Numerical Growth

This is part five in a continuing series, Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell? I think numerical church growth can also be an idealized state, the place we want to ...

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June 9, 2006

Healing, Sick and Dying Churches

This is part four in a continuing series, Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell? So if a church isn’t growing, what’s happening? Rick Warren says it’s dying, that it’s diseased. ...

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June 8, 2006

Perpetual Church Growth

This is part three in a continuing series, Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell? The Out of Ur blog from Christianity Today has an interesting post about Jim Collins (author ...

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June 7, 2006

9 Church Growth Myths

This is part two in a continuing series, Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell? There are a lot of knee-jerk reactions to church growth. Somehow wanting more people to come ...

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June 6, 2006

Is Church Growth the Highway to Hell?

Start talking about church growth and things can get ugly. Eyebrows raise. Tempers flare. Comments explode. Just ask any blogging pastor who has broached the subject. It’s as if growing ...

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technology Article
May 16, 2006

How Your Church Can Ignore Web 2.0

Part 8 in a series on What Web 2.0 Means for Your Church Almost a month and a half ago we started talking about web 2.0 and what it could mean ...

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April 13, 2006

How Your Church Can Use Squidoo

Part 5 in a continuing series on What Web 2.0 Means for Your Church So what’s Squidoo? It’s another player in the exploding world of web 2.0 sites, though it has ...

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April 7, 2006

How Your Church Can Use Video

Part 4 in a continuing series on What Web 2.0 Means for Your Church Online video is the latest tech fad. There are TV shows for sale from Apple, you can ...

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April 6, 2006

How Your Church Can Use MySpace

Part 3 in a continuing series on What Web 2.0 Means for Your Church Let’s just open that can of worms called MySpace. If you haven’t heard about MySpace, you’ve surely ...

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April 5, 2006

How Your Church Can Use Flickr

Part 2 in a continuing series on What Web 2.0 Means for Your Church Let’s start with the photo-sharing site Flickr. It’s the media darling that began as an online game ...

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April 4, 2006

What Web 2.0 Means for Your Church

Web 2.0 is the latest rage. It’s on the cover of Newsweek and everyone is speculating if it’s the revenge of the dot com boom. This is the beginning of ...

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