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The Attractive Power of a Happy Church

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By Troy Dorrell, Tuesday, November 22, 2011
The Power of Joy for Drawing Visitors
Most churches want to reach people; anyone who is actually trying to fulfill the Great Commission gives serious thought to strategies for doing so. Along with an aggressive outreach effort to reach people, many churches employ programs, campaigns, and various other tactics to keep guests once they have come.
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3 Steps to Significant Growth

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By Dr. Mike Mutchler, Tuesday, November 15, 2011
Praying and Preparing for Church Growth
Every pastor wants his church to grow. Many pastors do not realize that they often hold the key to significant growth. We know that God ultimately blesses a church with numerical growth as He sees fit, but the pastor can unlock the door to usher in this growth if he is willing to pay the price.
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Pastoral Leadership
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Assimilation Protocol

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By Dr. Mike Mutchler, Wednesday, October 5, 2011
8 Ideas to Help Guests Become Members
When God sends guests to your church, you must see them as a gift from God and treat them as such. Your reaction to them and response to their visit largely determine whether or not they will be your guest again.
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Pastoral Leadership
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The Importance of the First Impression

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By Troy Dorrell, Tuesday, September 27, 2011
You Only Get One Chance to Make It
There is an old saying that is absolutely true; you never have a second chance to make a first impression. All of us have visited churches where our first impression was less than positive.
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Pastoral Leadership
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Keeping the Finances Afloat

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By Dr. Mike Mutchler, Wednesday, September 7, 2011
Ideas to Get or Keep Your Church on Solid Financial Footing
Handling the financial pressures of a church are without a doubt the toughest task we face as pastors in our churches, especially when the expenses of our ministry have increased, and the income has leveled off or even decreased.
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Pastoral Leadership
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What Are New Buildings For?

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By Kurt Skelly, Wednesday, June 29, 2011
Church Growth Should Be deeper Than New Buildings
In John chapter two, Jesus entered the newly refurbished Herodian Temple. What would His attitude be toward the pseudo worship of the Jews of His day? The building had not looked so good since the day of Solomon’s Temple, but buildings are not ends in and of themselves.
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Pastoral Leadership
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After the Big Day

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By Jim Townsley, Monday, May 23, 2011
Understanding the Ebb and Flow of Church Attendance
Every church enjoys special days throughout the year. Easter and Christmas usually top the list of special holidays; but in addition to holidays, there are patriotic services, revival services, Bible conferences, and missions conferences.
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This Little Church Stayed Home

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By Dr. Paul Chappell, Tuesday, March 8, 2011
A Review of the Book by Gary Gilley
Good, strong, faithful churches in our day are increasingly being enticed away from the foundation of Scripture. In an effort to draw a crowd, they are actually being drawn into the crowd.
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Book Reviews
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Strategic Vision Casting

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By Dr. Paul Chappell, Tuesday, January 11, 2011
4 Thoughts on Presenting Vision to Your Church
Once each year we have a special night at our church called “Vision Night.” This is usually New Year’s Eve or the first Sunday of a new year, and it is one of my favorite church services of the year.
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Pastoral Leadership
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What Is Right Here?

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By Stephen Chappell, Monday, November 22, 2010
5 Aspects of Right Ministry
When a string of setbacks come into our lives we seldom begin with the question, “What is right here?” The typical starting point is, “What is wrong here?”
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Pastoral Leadership
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Fanning the Flame of Reinvigoration

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By Dr. Mike Mutchler, Monday, October 25, 2010
On the Go Again—Part 2
By making church fun again, you produce an excitement that your members will want to share with others. That excitement produces growth.
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Pastoral Leadership
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The Pastor Is the Key to Reinvigoration

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By Dr. Mike Mutchler, Monday, October 18, 2010
On the Go Again—Part 1
Many churches are stuck in stagnation. They gain some members, lose some members, and stay about the same every year. This can be turned around.
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Pastoral Leadership
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Scaffolding vs. First Fruits

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By Mark Irmler, Thursday, September 2, 2010
Focus on Winning the Lost
Most if not all church planters have heard the word scaffolding used by preachers to describe many of the people who were attracted to their church plants during their early days.
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Church Planting
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On the Grow Again

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By Dr. Mike Mutchler, Monday, August 2, 2010
Breaking through a Plateau
Growth continued until when we were four and a half years old we left a Baptist denomination, and we were sued for everything we owned.
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Pastoral Leadership
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Getting the Prospect to Church

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By Alan Fong, Wednesday, June 23, 2010
An Effective Follow-Up Plan
The following is a lesson I gave to our soulwinners at Heritage Baptist Church. This article will help you form a well thought out retention strategy and answer the following questions.
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Outreach & Discipleship
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How to Get Over Being Lame

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By Brian Leversee, Wednesday, May 5, 2010
Capitalizing on the Strengths of Your Church
A church plant is an awesome adventure, an important calling, a needed endeavor, and much more. However, for all the things church planting is, there are many things that it’s not.
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Church Planting
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Mistaken Identity

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By Dr. Al Stone, Saturday, March 27, 2010
The Need Next Door
I couldn’t pass up the chance to tease some teen-aged young men. They were right on me and another teacher from the Christian school where I taught, and though we couldn’t see their faces, they were obviously afraid to ride. We began to banter with the young men who looked no older than thirteen to put them a little more at ease.
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Church Planting
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Church Growth by Multiplication

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By Mark Irmler, Friday, March 26, 2010
The Acts 1:8 Plan for Church Growth
Only two dozen American mega-churches—a church with at least 2,000 people in average attendance—existed in 1990 according to Outreach magazine. Today there are over 1,300 mega-churches in America. The mega-church movement has boomed.
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Church Planting
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Church Still Works

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By Dr. Paul Chappell, Tuesday, January 5, 2010
I am thrilled for this resource to be available. This book will encourage and strengthen independent Baptist pastors and churches to fulfill the Great Commission.
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Book Reviews
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