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"'Church
growth.' I've seen people cringe when
they hear those words. I
think I
know why. They react negatively because
they feel 'church growth'
implies an
obsessive fixation with numbers and statistics."
Pastor
James Huebner, Spiritual Renewal Consultant,
Notebook,
School of Outreach IV,
Seventeen
Ways to Keep Your Church from Growing,
p. 178.
"We
can't do a thing to make his Word more effective. But surely we can
detract
from its effectiveness by careless errors and poor judgment. It just
makes good
sense to utilize all of our God-given talents, to scour the field for
appropriate
ideas, concepts, and material (sic), to implement programs, methods,
and
techniques so that we do not detract from the effectiveness of the gospel we
proclaim. Church growth articles, books, seminars, and
conferences can offer
such ideas
and programs."
Pastor
James Huebner, Spiritual Renewal Consultant,
Notebook,
School of Outreach IV,
Seventeen
Ways to Keep Your Church from Growing,
p. 178.