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Between 80 and 85% of all churches in America are either ____ or _____ |
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10 reasons why churched people attend church |
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1. theological beliefs and doctrine 2. care of people for each other 3. quality of sermons 4. friendliness to visitors 5. involvement of church in helping poor and disadvantaged people 6. quality of youth programs 7. pastor is likeaable 8. denomination 9. quality of adult SS classes 10. convenience of times of services |
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5 reasons why unchurched people attend church |
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1. learn more about God 2. religious training for Kids 3. improve understanding of Bible 4. meet other people 5. discover ways of handling daily challanges more effectively |
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Denomination that wins most people? |
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4 ways of meeting the challange of reaching the vast populations of earth with Adventism's special message? |
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1. community service 2. increased lay involvement 3. church planting 4. keep the fire burning(HS) |
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Father of Modern Church movement |
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Donald McGavran; wrote The Bridges of God; Peter Wagoner his disciple |
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Creator of Seeker Sensitive |
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7 Major components of Church Growth Theory |
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1. Pastor possibility thinker 2. well mobilized laity 3. large church to provide services 4. structural balance betwen congregation and cell 5. membership from one homogeneous unit 6. evagelistic methods that work 7. Philosophy rooted in the Bible |
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Sociological Strangulation |
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Slowdown in rate of church growth due to over growing facilities |
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new ethnic membership but acts like old one |
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not seeing cultural/generational differences |
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multi church evangelistic meetings hurt becuase of membership issues with new converts |
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interpersonal relationships in the church end up excluding new members |
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Arrested Spiritual Development |
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Members who are first generation Christians and not very well disciple stop growing spiritually |
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Disease of lukewarmness. 2nd generation Christians who have already been in the church and stagnated and stopped growing. |
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when your church parking lot or seating capacity reaches 80% that it is ok not to grow more, because if you do your church will probably start declining due to overgrowing parking and facilities. |
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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 |
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the conviction permeating the Body of Christ that God's will is for growth. |
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Class 1 – members whose energies primarily turn inward toward maintenance of the organizational structure of the church
Class 2 – members whose energies primarily turn outward toward the non-Christian community in an effort to bring them into the body of Christ |
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2 Evangelism: Classifications |
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Evangelism One (E1) – evangelization of people in one's own language and culture Evangelism Two (E2) – evangelization of people in a similar language and culture |
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– the use of diagnostic measurement instruments to determine the growth/decline of a church |
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Is there church growth/change without a price? |
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see church growth as the primary function of the church |
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Christ's______alone will give true success in reaching the people. The Savior _______ with men as one who desired their good. He showed His ______ for them, _________ to their needs, and won their __________. Then He bade them, 'Follow me.' MOH- ____ |
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1. Method 2. Mingled 3. sympathy 4. ministered 5. confidence 6. page 143 of MOH |
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Involvement of laity in churches |
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DECLINING - 27%, PLATEAUED - 45%, GROWING - 60% |
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Growing churches successfully: __, ___, ____, and ___ laity in ministry |
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Mobilize, train, equip, and deploy |
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Every time you increase programs what should you also increase? |
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% of people who come into the church through a friend/relative |
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Pastors of Growing Churches spend ____ daily in prayer |
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1. Empowering leadership 2. Gift-based ministry 3. Passionate Spirituality 4. Effective Structures 5. Inspiring worship service 6. holisitic small groups 7. need-oriented evangelism 8. loving relationships |
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5 stages in life cycle of church |
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1. birth 2. growth 3. plateau 4. decline 5. death |
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anytime a church is on the downtime of life cycle it needs to: |
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rebirth the dream or vision |
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extra credit:Times when change more easily occurs |
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1. time of crises 2. change of pastors 3. time of revival 4. time of planning 5. time of budget preparation |
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