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37 Cards in this Set
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Unchurched Americans
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258.7 Million
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Plateaud or Declining Churches
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80 - 85%
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Why Churched People Attend Church
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- Theological Beliefs & Doctrines
- People care about each other - quality of sermons - friendliness to visitors - Church helping poor & disadvantaged people - programs for children - likeablity of pastors - Denomination of Church - Adult SS Classes - Times of Service |
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Why Unchurched People attend church
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- Learning more about God
- Religious Training for Kids - Better understanding of Bible - Meeting People - Discovering ways of handling life better |
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What Christian Denomination is the #1 Winner of New Comers
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SDAs
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Reaching the Earth with SDA Message.
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- Scratch where it itches
- Meet Felt Needs - Increase lay involvement & full utilization of spiritual gifts of laity - Continually planting new churches for new people groups - keep fire burning |
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Donald McGavran
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Began the Church Growth Movement
The Bridges of Growth |
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Peter Wagner
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McGavran Discliples
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Seeker Sensitive
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Model popularized by Bill Hybels & Willow Creek
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Components of Church Growth Theory
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- A Pastor who is a possibility Thinker
- Well Mobilized Laity - Large enough Church - Proper Structural Balance - Membership drawn from one Homogeneous Unit - Use of Evangelistic Methods - Biblical Philosophy of Ministry |
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Church Pathologies/Terminal Illnesses
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Ethnikitis - Ghost Town Disease - A new ethnic group has taken over the neighbourhood a church is in - different from that of the church
Old Age - Occurs when a town is dying - people who belong to church don't live in town People Blindness - Prevents people from seeing cultural differences - in church and with neighbourhood around |
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Church Pathologies/Terminal Illness
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Hyper -Cooperativism - One or more churches work together in an evangelistic crusade - one church needs to be central
Koinonitis - Relationships in your church are so close it's hard for outsiders to get in Sociological Strangulation - Too Full > 80% Full+ Arrested Spiritual Development - Members Fail To Grow Spritually St.John's Syndrome - Lukewarmness - affects 2nd Generations especially |
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**Church Growth is
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The Effective evangelization of lost men and women, effectively incorporating them into the body of Christ and enabling them to become mature healthy, reproducing Christians.
Russell Burrill |
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Church Growth Conscience
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the conviction permeating the Body of Christ that God's will is for Growth.
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Classes of Leadership
Classes 1-5 |
- Members whose energies are inward - toward maintenance of organizational structures of the church
-Members whose energies are turned outward towards non-christian community to bring them to the body of Christ - Partially paid members whose activities are divided between church and outside activities - Member who are full time paid staff - ministry professionals - Denominational/Administrative personnel removed from the immediate scene of local church |
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Evangelism Two (E2)
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Evangelization of people in a similar language and culture
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Evangelism Three (E3)
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Evangelization of people of a radically different language and culture
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Measuring Growth
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The use of diagnostic measurement instruments to determine the growth/decline of a church
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Churches Grow as they develop...
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Church Growth Eyes
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Ministry of Healing P.143
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"Christ's method alone will give true success in reaching the people. The Saviour mingled with me as one who desired their good. He showed His sympathy for them, ministered to their needs, and won their confidence. Then He bade them, Follow Me."
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Growing Churches Successfully...
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Mobilize, Train, Equip and Deploy Laity in Ministry
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Most Churches try to grow by expanding....
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Their programs not their participation base - You have to grow your participation base...
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% of Laity involvement ...
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Declining 27%
Plateaued 45% Growing 60% |
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Ways People Come to Church
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Through a friend of relative 70 - 90%
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How much time to pastors of Growing Churches spend in Prayer?
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1 1/2 hours - relationship between prayer and group
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Growth Restricting Obstacles
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80% factor - that's full - add a 2nd service, new church, larger church
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**8 Quality Characteristics
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- Empowering Leadership
- Gift Based Ministry - Passionate Spirituality - Effective Structures - Inspiring Worship Service - Holistic Small Groups - Need Oriented Evangelism - Loving Relationships |
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Five Stages of Church Life
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1. Birth
2. Growth 3. Plateau 4. Decline 5. Death |
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When a Church is on the Downside of the Life Cycle..
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It needs to go back and rebirth the dream
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How to Change a Church of 400+ members
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Vision Casting - Every Sabbath Until the Group captures it
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Pastors who try to change small churches with large group methods...
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Encounter problems, the result is resistance and refusal to proposed changes
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Change needs to remain
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committed to the core values of the Church
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Converts are exposed to the gospel how many different ways...
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Converts hear - 5.8 ways
Drop outs - 2.1 ways Non-Converts - Less than 2 ways |
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Information Transimission Model
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Views Evangelism as a one-way transmission of information from sender to receiver
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Oikos Evangelism
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A social system composed of those related to each other through common ties and tasks
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Average Members has...
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6-8 unchurched friends, family and associates in their churches ministry area
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Extended Congregation
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Cumulative total of your member's unchurched friends, family and associates who are in the ministry area of your church (live close by)
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