http://www.insidenspire.com/2006/09/15/my-church-group-attendance-is-decreasing Our Thoughts about Nspire, Church Management Software & Ministry Tue, 20 Jul 2010 16:39:22 -0700 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.2 hourly 1 http://www.insidenspire.com/2006/09/15/my-church-group-attendance-is-decreasing/comment-page-1#comment-7 Inside Nspire » Blog Archive » Success and the Church??? Fri, 22 Sep 2006 14:24:27 +0000 http://www.insidenspire.com/http:/www.insidenspire.com/2006/09/15/my-church-group-attendance-is-decreasing#comment-7 [...] I posted a blog a while back titled "My Church Group Attendance is Decreasing" where I found an article about a youth pastor who was concerned about his group attendance decreasing. This has stayed on my mind. So often we look at church success as having the most people, the most money, the best programs, and the most resources, but is this really success? What about the church that has 10… 20… 50 people, but they look like Jesus in their community. Their community recognizes Jesus without the "stuff" but in the people. Maybe, church success is different than what it has been believed to be. Maybe, we don’t need the latest and greatest, but in fact we already have it…. but we’re not using it. [...] [...] I posted a blog a while back titled "My Church Group Attendance is Decreasing" where I found an article about a youth pastor who was concerned about his group attendance decreasing. This has stayed on my mind. So often we look at church success as having the most people, the most money, the best programs, and the most resources, but is this really success? What about the church that has 10… 20… 50 people, but they look like Jesus in their community. Their community recognizes Jesus without the "stuff" but in the people. Maybe, church success is different than what it has been believed to be. Maybe, we don’t need the latest and greatest, but in fact we already have it…. but we’re not using it. [...]

]]> http://www.insidenspire.com/2006/09/15/my-church-group-attendance-is-decreasing/comment-page-1#comment-5 Jerry Wed, 20 Sep 2006 04:54:40 +0000 http://www.insidenspire.com/http:/www.insidenspire.com/2006/09/15/my-church-group-attendance-is-decreasing#comment-5 We need to move from numbers based success stories to transformation based success stories. Then pastors will strive for changed lives, not changed bottom lines. We need to move from numbers based success stories to transformation based success stories. Then pastors will strive for changed lives, not changed bottom lines.

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