Growth by Accident, Death by Planning How Not to Kill a Growing Congregation

Name: Growth by Accident, Death by Planning How Not to Kill a Growing Congregation
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ISBN: 9780687083251

ISBN-10: 0687083257

ISBN-13: 9780687083251

Edition: 2004

Authors: Bob Whitesel

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It is a familiar experience. A congregation that had been growing in numbers and spiritual vitality reaches a plateau and then begins to decline. Most of the time, the plateau occurs long before the church arrives at theoptimum number of members it hoped to attract. What has happened here? Why does growth slow down, stop, and then decline? The real question to ask, says Bob Whitesel, is why the church grew in the first place.Most of the time young, growing churches make a series of decisions based not upon careful planning and analysis, but rather upon necessity and intuition. Thus these decisions are not planned strategies, but strategies that often occur by accident, owing their genesis…

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List price: $21.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Abingdon Press
Publication date: 6/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.44" wide x 8.46" long x 0.50" tall
Weight: 0.550
Language: English



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Missteps with staff influence



Missteps with worship celebrations



Missteps with prayer



Missteps with budgets



Missteps with new facilities



Missteps with innovation



Missteps with evaluation



Missteps with dysfunctional people



Missteps with staff education



Missteps with small groups



Missteps with the centrality of Christ


Epilogue


Notes