Hi Reader,
Every church leader I know is trying to reach more people. Church growth has been in the air in the church for decades, but I'm guessing, you're not entirely sure how we got here, to this moment in the church.
What is the church growth movement? What are its best practices and its worst? Why does it get criticized when so many of us do what to reach more people? How did we get to this place in the church today?
That's exactly what Todd Wilson and I spent two hours unpacking and it’s the seminary class most of us never got.
Todd has spent two years and over 100 interviews tracing the history of the church growth movement from its origins in the 1950s all the way to today. Donald McGavran. Robert Schuller. Bill Hybels. Rick Warren. Peter Drucker. Bob Buford. Leadership Network. The seeker movement. Multi-site. Missional. Attractional. Deconstruction. All of it is connected.
Here's what got me: the operating system most of us are running was never designed for what we're using it for now. And understanding how we got here might be the most important thing you do for where you're going.
You’ll want to take your team through this one.
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