Okay, so maybe everyone else in the blogosphere has see 8 Sure Ways to Shrink a Church over at The Refuge, but I just discovered it for the first time, so there’s a chance you haven’t seen it, too. Here’s a brief outline for you, but you’ll have to read the article to fill in the blanks.
- Shoot the Sheriff
- Tell the Truth
- Embrace Brokenness
- Demand Equality
- Defer to the Least of These
- Be Generous
- Let People Speak
- Value People Above Strategy
(HT: Kathy Escobar)
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Hey, actually I haven’t seen this so thank you very much for the link. For some reason I really like # 7, it really is important.
I love that list Bill
hey that’s fun, glad you liked it! we wrote that a while back. we always joke that we are the experts in church shrinkage (yeah, not a very lucrative consulting job).