Comments on: The Future Dying Church http://www.goodmanson.com/church/the-future-dying-church/ Church Technology, Internet Ministry & Church Planting Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:24:31 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Change=Sacrifice « Beyond Me http://www.goodmanson.com/church/the-future-dying-church/comment-page-1/#comment-209878 Change=Sacrifice « Beyond Me Thu, 20 Oct 2011 12:37:41 +0000 http://www.goodmanson.com/2006-09/01/the-future-dying-church/#comment-209878 [...] are going to survive we must be willing to take the lead now.  It is estimated that between 3500-4000 churches die each year and not enough are planted to replace them.  We must, we have to, step up millennials.  We [...] [...] are going to survive we must be willing to take the lead now.  It is estimated that between 3500-4000 churches die each year and not enough are planted to replace them.  We must, we have to, step up millennials.  We [...]

]]> By: churches closing and pastors leaving « djchuang.com http://www.goodmanson.com/church/the-future-dying-church/comment-page-1/#comment-208293 churches closing and pastors leaving « djchuang.com Mon, 01 Feb 2010 05:07:58 +0000 http://www.goodmanson.com/2006-09/01/the-future-dying-church/#comment-208293 [...] American church statistics have reported [via Goodmanson]: [...] [...] American church statistics have reported [via Goodmanson]: [...]

]]> By: Leading Turnaround Churches (Part 1) « NickPooleNow.com http://www.goodmanson.com/church/the-future-dying-church/comment-page-1/#comment-208211 Leading Turnaround Churches (Part 1) « NickPooleNow.com Fri, 18 Dec 2009 19:30:21 +0000 http://www.goodmanson.com/2006-09/01/the-future-dying-church/#comment-208211 [...] or ‘Comeback Churches‘ as Ed Stetzer put it in his excellent book on this subject.¬† From statistics I have seen, the American church is on a path that is not good.¬† Each year in American, between 3500-4000 [...]

]]> By: Andrew Fortune http://www.goodmanson.com/church/the-future-dying-church/comment-page-1/#comment-207897 Andrew Fortune Fri, 26 Jun 2009 16:33:53 +0000 http://www.goodmanson.com/2006-09/01/the-future-dying-church/#comment-207897 I think that if Christians started hang out with non-Christians and stopped worrying about how to grow churches, stuff would start changing. And not hanging out with them in order to “save” them, but just to be friends with them.

1 Corinthians 5:9-12
When I wrote to you before, I told you not to associate with people who indulge in sexual sin. But I wasn’t talking about unbelievers who indulge in sexual sin, or are greedy, or cheat people, or worship idols. You would have to leave this world to avoid people like that. I meant that you are not to associate with anyone who claims to be a believer yet indulges in sexual sin, or is greedy, or worships idols, or is abusive, or is a drunkard, or cheats people. Don’t even eat with such people. It isn’t my responsibility to judge outsiders.

God never called us to save people… that’s His Job. He called us to love them and I think we are failing on a national level right now.

2 questions:

If Jesus didn’t prefer to hang out with churched people, then why do we?

If a persons faith is weak around unbelievers, how do they know that they really have true faith at all?

]]> By: zane anderson http://www.goodmanson.com/church/the-future-dying-church/comment-page-1/#comment-13463 zane anderson Sat, 02 Sep 2006 21:55:53 +0000 http://www.goodmanson.com/2006-09/01/the-future-dying-church/#comment-13463 If any be interested, I offer free consultation services for any dying church which may desire to move toward oversight by a plurality of voluntary elders rather than the traditional arrangement of a single salaried pastor. This can actually work. Sadly, by the time some dying churches acknowledge their plight, there remain no prospects and it's too late. God help us. David Anderson p.o. 4242 Bristol, TN 37625 423 538 7897 If any be interested, I offer free consultation services for any dying church which may desire to move toward oversight by a plurality of voluntary elders rather than the traditional arrangement of a single salaried pastor. This can actually work.

Sadly, by the time some dying churches acknowledge their plight, there remain no prospects and it’s too late.

God help us.

David Anderson
p.o. 4242
Bristol, TN 37625

423 538 7897

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