Tag Archives: Christianity

One Week Later

Posted on April 22, 2013 by Don Merritt

I would imagine that most of us have various impressions of the last week’s news relating to the events in Boston. Violence, terror, confusion, outrage, sadness, mourning all fit the bill, but of course there are other things as well. … Continue reading →

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Looking Outward

Posted on April 10, 2013 by Don Merritt

As a Christian begins to mature in his or her faith, he or she begins to realize that the Christian life is about more than just what we want, what we like and meeting our needs, for the Christian life … Continue reading →

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Basic Communication

Posted on April 9, 2013 by Don Merritt

As we continue on with our look at church growth, I think it would be beneficial to review some basics of elementary communication to see if there is an application to growing a church, and of course I mean growing … Continue reading →

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TWWADI: Church Killer

Posted on April 5, 2013 by Don Merritt

OK, What is TWWADI? It’s “The Way We’ve Always Done It” Another word for this is “Tradition.” I think I’d rather use TWWADI because I’ve learned that as soon as I say tradition, I have a fight on my hands… Let’s … Continue reading →

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Pausing to Take Stock

Posted on April 2, 2013 by Don Merritt

So far, we’ve looked at how we got started in our church, turning it around so that it could grow. In this little narrative, our point of beginning was a church that had little chance of surviving for very long, … Continue reading →

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Vision Rollout: Phase Two

Posted on April 1, 2013 by Don Merritt

The first phase of our introduction of our church’s Vision Statement was in our last post, and it included a little bit of showmanship to get the people to focus on something that had never before happened in our church: … Continue reading →

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Posted on March 31, 2013 by Don Merritt

Just try to picture what it would have been like to witness Jesus entering Jerusalem in Triumph; can you? Just picture it, the great King of Heaven riding into the city, people line His route and they shout: Hosanna to … Continue reading →

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The Vision Rollout

Posted on March 30, 2013 by Don Merritt

We’ve been going through some ides on how to turn a church around so that it can grow both spiritually and numerically and begin to prosper for Christ. Yesterday, we left off at the point where our leadership adopted a … Continue reading →

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Vision

Posted on March 29, 2013 by Don Merritt

Where there is no vision, the people perish Proverbs 29:18 (KJV) Of all of the things that I have seen, the one that is most destructive for any local church body is a lack of a vision. Gossip can be … Continue reading →

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Quick Focus: “Growth”

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Don Merritt

I’ve received comments from a couple of people for whom I have a great respect, reminding me that a church can appear to grow numerically without ever growing spiritually, and this is true! Please, let’s understand that for the purpose … Continue reading →