I read a post on another blog today that lists “15 essential steps for changing traditional churches into New Testament churches.” I’m going to list all 15 here because I really want your comments. However, in order to give credit where it is due, let me make it clear that these are not mine. In fact, […]
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Each year OUTREACH magazine publishes “The Outreach 100” annual report on the largest and fastest-growing churches in America. In response to this year’s report, Ed Stetzer, from Lifeway Research, has written a great article called “Learning from America’s Largest and Fastest-Growing Churches” that I think you should read. (It took me about 6 minutes to
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Aubrey Malphurs defines a vision as “a clear, challenging picture of the future of the ministry as you believe it can and must be” (Aubrey Malphurs, Developing a Vision for Ministry in the 21st Century). Over several weeks and posts I have laid out the vision that God has given me for Oak Tree Community
