{"id":270,"date":"2008-09-23T10:29:36","date_gmt":"2008-09-23T14:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.danielgoepfrich.com\/current-church-growth-info\/"},"modified":"2022-08-01T18:38:55","modified_gmt":"2022-08-01T22:38:55","slug":"current-church-growth-info","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theologyisforeveryone.com\/current-church-growth-info\/","title":{"rendered":"Current Church Growth info"},"content":{"rendered":"

Each year OUTREACH magazine<\/a> publishes “The Outreach 100” annual report on the largest and fastest-growing churches in America.<\/p>\n

In response to this year’s report, Ed Stetzer<\/a>, from Lifeway Research<\/a>, has written a great article called “Learning from America\u2019s Largest and Fastest-Growing Churches”<\/a> that I think you should read. (It took me about 6 minutes to read it thoroughly. \u0627\u0644\u0639\u0628 \u0648\u0627\u0643\u0633\u0628<\/a> )<\/p>\n

It ties in nicely with my recent posts on church growth (see parts 1<\/a>, 2<\/a>, and 3<\/a>)\u00a0 and “Growing Smaller with Groups”<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If you are interested, you can follow these links for Outreach’s 100 Largest Churches<\/a> and 100 Fastest-Growing Churches<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Will OTCC<\/a> ever make one of those lists? Don’t know. But I sure hope to impact our community the way some of these churches are impacting theirs. People are being saved. Lives and families are being changed. \u0645\u0627\u0643\u064a\u0646\u0627\u062a \u0627\u0644\u0642\u0645\u0627\u0631 \u0639\u0644\u0649 \u0627\u0644\u0627\u0646\u062a\u0631\u0646\u062a<\/a> And that carries over into every other area – business, politics, education – everything.<\/p>\n

We’re not playing games here. \u0644\u0639\u0628\u0629 \u0627\u0644\u0631\u0648\u0644\u064a\u062a<\/a> What we do at OTCC<\/a> is literally a matter of life and death. What part are you playing to advance God’s kingdom in South Bend?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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