I’ve been neglecting my blog. Had a great but demanding week. First of all our CRM leadership conference. Then the Forge Summit. Ready for some down time chipping away at a dry stone wall I’m building in our backyard. At the Forge Summit, Ruth Powell from the Australian National Church Life Survey updated us on [...]
Category Archives: 2. Growth
How was it done?
Pre-existing relationships are the key to any exponential growth of a movement.
How the West was won
There has been a lot of discussion recently about the decline of mainline churches and it causes. Some excellent work has been done by Roger Finke and Rodney Stark two sociologists who dabble in history. Finke and Stark have examined denominational statistics on the US church between 1776 and 1850. They concluded that “the so-called [...]
