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CHURCH INDEX
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Articles About Church
Church: General
1.26.22 | Is Our Experience during the Pandemic Calling the Church toward Simplicity?
4.10.20 | The Church and the Pandemic #1: The Pandemic and Loneliness
4.10.20 | The Church and the Pandemic #2: This Is the Church's Moment
12.12.19 | The Importance of Discipleship in Developing Healthy Churches
11.28.19 | Seeking Alternative Biblical and Practical Expressions of Church: Reviewing the Past One-Third Century (1985-2019)
7.10.19 | Gathering vs. Going: Rethinking What It Means to Be Church
12.23.16 | Work of Church Depends on Problem You See
11.26.16 | A Biblical Model of Church: Mutuality, Message, Ministry
5.17.15 | Five Areas where Church Should Refocus
4.25.15 | Seminar: Characteristics of a Spiritual Church
4.22.15 | Challenges Confronting the Church
12.15.14 | Bells and Steeples and Churches
9.3.14 | What is God's View of the Church?
5.31.14 | Is Your Church Healthy?
3.23.14 | Churches, Bells and Steeples
5.26.13 | Renewing the Focus of the Church
4.29.13 | Renewing Broken Churches
4.10.13 | The Culture of the Church
7.16.12 | Broken Churches
5.7.12 | Model Churches
5.4.11 | Church: Mission, Method, Maturity
3.25.11 | Ephesians: The DNA of the Church where the Spirit Dwells
3.7.11 | Why Do Churches Grow?
11.15.10 | My Dream for the Church
10.23.10 | Reflections: Making a Difference
10.23.10 | Encouraging Observations: Keeping On Keeping On
10.19.10 | Churches Filled with Non-Serious People
9.7.10 | God Makes the Church a Community [1 Cor. 12-14]
3.24.10 | Tardiness: Kick the Habit
3.24.10 | Absenteeism: Kick the Habit
3.24.10 | Churches Feel the Competition
3.1.10 | Church Identity: Seeking Understanding
3.1.10 | Is Your Church Dying? Factors that Threaten the Church
2.27.10 | Undenominational Claim--Denominational Worldview
9.4.09 | Seven Characteristics of Effective, Biblical Churches
2.23.09 | Church: Where the Gifts of God Come into View
8.6.08 | Stress Fractures
8.6.08 | What Is Fellowship?
11.10.06 | Why Does the Church Exist (1)
11.10.06 | Why Does the Church Exist (2)
11.10.06 | Why Does the Church Exist (3): Implications for Ministry Training
2.18.04 | Who Are the Churches of Christ?
10.9.03 | Product and Package!
3.7.03 | Thinking About Differences
1.31.03 | The Church is the Hope of the World
6.9.02 | Is the Church "Playing Small"?
1.8.02 | What Are the Marks of a Good Church?
1.8.02 | The Church Is Like A Jigsaw Puzzle
1.2.02 | The Church is Not....
1.2.02 | How's The Church Doing?
1.2.02 | Neglecting the Church to Death
1.2.02 | You Should Be In Bible School Because...
1.21.01 | The Church Is a Place of Belonging
Church: Mission, Purpose, and Vision
2.23.22 | Spillover Effect: What's in the Bucket?
2.23.22 | Time to Reset Goals and Cast a Renewed Vision [Acts 27]
2.23.22 | Church Planning: Theology Matters
11.14.20 | Integrating Discipleship, Mission, and the Development of Missional Communities
7.10.19 | Gathering vs. Going: Rethinking What It Means to Be Church
6.25.17 | Setting Biblical Goals in the Local Church
12.23.16 | How to Make Your Vision a Reality
11.26.16 | Vision: Three Essential Steps toward Implementation
6.24.16 | The Importance of a Strong, Compelling Vision for the Future
6.7.14 | In sync with the mission
11.18.13 | What if the church misses its purpose?
5.6.11 | Church Mission: Why? What? How?
5.6.11 | ASCEND: The Christian Mission
5.6.11 | Church: Purpose, Identity, Agenda, Renewal
5.6.11 | The Purpose of the Church: What Business Are We In?
3.7.11 | Serious About God's Purpose
11.8.06 | Purpose, Mission, and Vision
11.8.06 | Rethinking Vision: Basic ABC's
5.22.06 | What Business Are We In?
10.7.03 | A Vision Worthy of Our God
8.15.03 | Sharing the Vision
7.1.03 | What Is Our Mission?
Church Health
7.19.23 | Church: Reading the Error Codes
12.12.19 | The Importance of Discipleship in Developing Healthy Churches
11.4.17 | Metrics for a Healthy Church
2.16.16 | Healthy Churches--What is the Key?
5.31.14 | Is Your Church Healthy?
9.4.13 | Church Wellness
9.4.13 | Church Health: Seven Factors
6.1.13 | Healthy Churches--Faithful Churches
5.26.13 | Renewing the Focus of the Church
8.16.11 | Church Vital Signs
2.2.10 | Mapping the Journey: Developing a Healthy Church
Church Planting
4.6.23 | Maturing Disciples--Forming New Spiritual Families
4.26.22 | When Evangelism Doesn't Translate into Multiplying Disciples and Growing Churches
12.26.18 | Church Planting Matters--for the Lost, the World, the Church
10.7.17 | Planting Disciple-Making Multiplying Churches
9.22.16 | Why don't more churches have babies?
9.1.16 | Church Planting Is One of the Best Evangelism Tools: Why I focus on developing healthy, evangelistic, missionary churches
8.20.13 | Christianity in Decline: The Need for Missional Church Planting
6.1.13 | We Are Planting Traditional Churches: Is There a Better Path to the Future?
11.6.12 | Church Planting: Stages of Church Development
2.2.10 | Elements of Church Planting or Revitalization
11.15.09 | Reflections on the Church Planting Movement
Church Development: Planning, Renewal, Gifts, Growth, Renewal
6.25.17 | Setting Biblical Goals in the Local Church
4.8.13 | Finding Your Gifts, Finding Your Ministry
3.9.11 | Small Groups: Church Change or Church Growth?
3.7.11 | Why Do Churches Grow?
7.27.10 | When the Church Needs Renewal
3.1.10 | Three Imperatives for Church Renewal
2.2.10 | Elements of Church Revitalization
9.4.09 | Seven Characteristics of Effective, Biblical Churches
2.23.09 | Reinventing the Closed System Model
11.20.05 | How Do People Choose Churches Today?
11.20.03 | What If We Miss Our Destiny?
11.5.03 | Selective Vision
11.5.03 | Four Dimensions of Church Growth
10.9.03 | On Purpose
9.15.03 | Do We Really Care?
3.7.03 | Nothing Less Than Excellence
7.17.02 | Automatic Church Growth[#1]
7.17.02 | A Mission Consistent with God's Mission[#2]
7.17.02 | Empowering Leadership--Structures for Encouraging and Enhancing Ministry[#3]
7.17.02 | Gift-Oriented, Empowered, Participative Individual Ministry[#4]
7.17.02 | Healthy Relationships, Holistic Spirituality[#5]
7.17.02 | Celebrative, God-Centered Worship in the Context of Community[#6]
7.17.02 | Spiritual Nurturing on the Faith Journey[#7]
7.17.02 | Involvement in the Global Search[#8]
1.8.02 | Catching the Vision: Developing the Church
1.8.02 | The Church Is Like A Jigsaw Puzzle
1.7.02 | Looking at Church Growth Again!
1.7.02 | Revitalizing the Church
1.2.02 | Another Look at Church Growth--1
1.2.02 | Another Look at Church Growth--2
1.2.02 | Another Look at Church Growth--3
1.2.02 | Growing Churches Pay Attention to the Needs of Adults
1.2.02 | What Do Growing Churches Have in Common?
Church and Contemporary Culture: News Items and Surveys [Barna, Gallup, Pew, and others]
6.8.23 | Mega-Challenges Before the Church
4.27.23 | Barna: The Church Must Address Loneliness
6.10.14 | Taking the Gospel into Today's World: Cultural, Intellectual, and Religious Shifts
8.24.13 | The Impact of Civic Religion in the United States
12.17.10 | Economy Has Impact on Giving
10.19.10 | Barna: Little Religious Change
10.19.10 | Pew: Survey Confirms Bible Illiteracy
10.6.10 | Barna: Financial Concerns Are Top Worry
7.12.10 | Barna: Changes in Teen Faith
6.8.10 | Lifeway: Fewer Young Adults Attend Church
6.8.10 | Barna: Americans Open to New Expressions of Faith
[This link is to the complete essay. The next three articles divide the essay into articles suitable for church bulletins.]
6.8.10 | Barna: Americans Open to New Expressions of Faith-1 6.8.10 | Barna: Americans Open to New Expressions of Faith-2 6.8.10 | Barna: Americans Open to New Expressions of Faith-3
6.8.10 | Barna: Majority of Christians Believe Jesus Speaks Back
5.7.10 | Barna Report: The Faith of African Americans
5.7.10 | Barna Report: The Changing Faith of Hispanics
5.7.10 | Barna Report: How Church Size Affects Faith
5.7.10 | Barna Report: Beliefs Vary Widely Among Christians
5.4.10 | LifeWay Research: More Churches Opening than Closing?
4.15.10 | Barna: Most of the Unchurched Are Christians
3.24.10 | Pew Survey: Profiling Religion among the Millennials
3.24.10 | News Report: Wyoming First State to Adopt Code of Behavior
3.1.10 | Barna: Reshaping Faith in the U.S.
3.1.10 | Barna: Four Megathemes in U.S. Culture
2.27.10 | Barna Report: Decreased Giving
2.1.10 | News: Christian Worldview--Top Ten Stories of 2009
2.1.10 | Barna: Developing Effective Competent Leaders
2.1.10 | Pew Survey: How Religious Is Your State?
2.1.10 | Barna Report: Denominational Decline
1.31.10 | Number of Americans with No Religion is Growing
1.31.10 | Christmas 2009 Gallup Poll: Fewer Americans Define Themselves as Christian
12.29.09 | Pew Report: Americans Mix Faiths
12.22.09 | 2009 In Review: Reflecting on a Barna Report
12.10.09 | Barna: House Churches--An Update and Reflections
12.8.09 | Barna: Changing Attitudes Toward the Bible
12.3.09 | Spiritual Activities for Youth: Barna Summary
10.12.09 | Another Look at U.S. Church Attendance
6.30.09 | Pew Survey Shows Religious Shift
6.13.09 | Barna: New Ways of Experiencing and Expressing Faith in U.S.
3.10.09 | Two Religious Surveys
2.15.09 | Barna: Spiritual Gifts Survey
1.15.09 | Barna: Christianity No Longer Default Religion in the US
12.13.08 | Wuthnow: Church Attendance and Marriage
10.27.08 | Barna: Changing Views of Spirituality
3.17.08 | Changing Religious Affiliations: Results from a Pew Forum Survey
11.20.05 | Barna: How People Choose Churches Today
10.9.03 | Gallup: Are We Spiritual?