Saturday, July 20, 2013

Is Your Church Ready to Die to Reach Its Community

Is Your Church Ready to Die to Reach Its Community
By Rusty Ford

Time to die and time for new birth

Very truly I tell you, unless a kernel of wheat falls to the ground and dies, it remains only a single seed. But if it dies, it produces many seeds.
John 12:24

This series is about strategic community outreach. As mentioned in the previous post this serious is based on my book “Revitalizing Your Church Trough Dynamic Community Outreach”. The book is based the concept of strategic community outreach and applies it churches that are not growing, stopped growing, never grown or is reducing in size. Many times the best way to change the direction is to let the church die and replant it. This does not mean you close the doors and give it to someone else. It does mean that the leadership forgets everything that has been done in the past and treats the church as a strategic church plant. You stop what you are doing and start over from the beginning.

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