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    How can you maximize team effectiveness, as well as better steward Church resources, by leveraging cultural shifts in the workplace? If you ask people where they go when they really need to get work done, very few will respond “the office.

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    Help! I can’t find enough leaders! I don’t know about you…but that is the most common complaint/concern I hear when I talk with small group champions.

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    Have you ever been to the circus and wondered how one small rope tied around the leg of a huge elephant can keep it from moving? When elephants are young, their handlers use the same size rope tied to their leg, with the other end tied to a rod buried deep in the ground.

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    Recently I launched a 90-day journey to equip and encourage you to develop a 100 Life Dreams List.

  • Unsame Your Ministry Vision, Part 1

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comment_post_ID); ?> Thank you Ed for sharing your insights into the Church Growth Movement. I have my reservations with Church Growth models because it has done more damage than good in the Body of Christ. Over the years, western churches are more focused on results, formulas and processes with little or no emphasis on membership and church discipline. Pastors and vocational leaders are burnt out because they're overworked. I do believe that the Church Growth model is a catalyst to two destructive groups: The New Apostolic Reformation and the Emerging Church. Both groups overlap and have a very loose definition. They're both focus on contemporary worship, expansion of church brand (franchising), and mobilizing volunteering members as 'leaders' to grow their ministry. Little focus on biblical study, apologetics and genuine missional work with no agenda besides preaching of the gospel.
 
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