Last week, Aaron Earls wrote a very helpful article entitled The Church Growth Gap: The Big Get Bigger While the Small Get Smaller. In it, he outlined the results of a recent survey taken by Lifeway Research.
There’s a lot of data in the survey and the article, much of which will take more time to properly digest, but here are 6 of my first impressions after a couple of read-throughs.
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Pastors may be surrounded by people, but that doesn’t mean they have their support. It takes a church for a pastor to rest well.
While the Church Growth Movement created larger churches and opportunities, it also created larger dangers.
“In the first twenty years of the movement, research focused on principles; lately the focus has been on discovering new techniques, programs, or methods.” (Elmer Towns)
