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What you can do to Prevent your Church from going Extinct!

Is your church one that reminisces of the glory days? Oh, how wonderful we were when we….. Or when we had…..? Is your passion and affection for yesterday's church greater than today's? Do you fear tomorrow's church? Has your excitement been fleeting? Is the passion absent? Has fear of change caused you to be over-cautions or even disengaged? Is there a compromise of God's Word and or worldliness going on? Is next Sunday just a run-of-the-mill Sunday with no excitement or urgency to what God has for you?

If you have answered "yes" to any of these questions, it is time to revitalize--or become extinct! Learn from over twenty-five years of research, what goes wrong and how to turn your church around… >

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Research Highlights

Statistics and Reasons for Church Decline

God's marvelous Church has become culturally irrelevant and even distant from is prime purpose of knowing Him, growing in Him, and worshiping Him by making disciples! This is evidenced by what is going on in our culture and in our church. Most of the statistics tell us that...

Statistics on Why Churches Fail

Are you willing to take an honest look at some of the reasons why people are not coming to your church?

More here: Research Findings Why Churches Fail

Growing in Christ is the key to growing a church!

Research Findings Relationship Research

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Financial Challenge

We are a ministry making a difference for the Kingdom of God, and...

New Funding Project! RealEstateProject.pdf

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Biblical Insights, Research & Results for Leading your Church

Leading the Church

Pride and Propitiation
The world may see pride as a sign of respect and dignity, a sign that our worth as human beings is supreme, But.... (3/7/2008)

Effective Leadership

Focus on Christ! Ephesians 1: 3-6
Christ is to be our prime focus--first, foremost, over anything or anyone else. If we are not leading our people to Christ and explaining Who He is and What He does, we are not pastoring, we are pestering. We are simply being prideful and promoting ourselves. (9/19/2016)

Being Loyal to Christ and His Bride
We got trouble in our churches--a lack of loyalty. A tough question needs to be asked of ourselves, are we being "harlots" with His Church? Do not refuse God. Teach, preach, be loyal, be fruitful, be faithful, be real for Christ and live it out. By our example, we are used for His glory, giving people known and unknown to us a chance to repent and be saved. (3/8/2013)

Discipleship

What is Discipleship?
Matthew 28:16-20; Romans 12; 1 Corinthians 12 What is discipleship and what is Jesus calling us to in Matthew 28:18-20? Being a disciple encompasses more than just asking Christ in our life and heart, and goes far beyond baptism or our church membership! (3/8/2008)

Bible Research

The Three Angels
Revelation 14:6-13 (2/12/2008)

Scripture of the Day

Thinking and Providing Biblical and Grace-Centered Theological Resources for the Church