Tag Archives: hope

Stranger in a Strange Town

Posted on April 4, 2013 by Don Merritt

  For the past few days I’ve been here in our Nation’s Capital, and what a different place it is!  This isn’t the slow-paced Midwest I’ve become used to, no, this place is big city.  The traffic is horrific, the … 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 →

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OK, How do you Know all this?

Posted on March 28, 2013 by Don Merritt

Before I go much further into church growth, I should show you the respect of answering this simple question:  How do you know this? I could tell you that I have been in church leadership for about 25 years, that … Continue reading →

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Blogging is kind of funny…

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Don Merritt

I’ve been doing this blog for quite some time now.  Maybe not as long as some of course, and certainly not as successfully as many, but I’ve been doing it long enough to realize a few things that I’d like … Continue reading →

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Pray with Boldness

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Don Merritt

How often do we pray with boldness?  No, I mean with real boldness…? Do we ask God for big things, as opposed to routine things?  Do we ask God to take the battle right to the enemy, or to win … Continue reading →

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