Comeback Churches – Leaders

Chapter 10 – Comeback Change Agents: New or Renewed Pastors 
At first glance it seems this chapter is a rehash of chapter 2. (Truth is that pretty much the last 5 chapters are all rehashing of previous themes from a slightly different angle). But whereas chapter 2 was about the leader being the number one factor [...]

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Comeback Churches – Facilities

Chapter 9 – Other Comeback Factors 
This chapter includes a variety of other “comeback factors” like facilities, marketing, resources, and the age and size of the church. The only thing really worth mentioning here is facilities.
 
Comeback churches often changed their facilities to help facilitate growth. The authors use an apt metaphor of a bonsai tree whose [...]

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Comeback Churches – Connecting People through Small Groups

I am running out of interest in this book as it gets more and more mundane, but I am still determined to finish it. This chapter was the most boring of all so far because it just explained the obvious and did not offer any new or renewed insights.
 
The chapter can be summarized with four [...]

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Comeback Churches – Motivating and Moblilizing People out of the Pews

Chapter 7
Ugh! This chapter hit me like a stone between the eyes. This is SO so so the next hill we need to climb and I have known it for several months but have yet to give it any serious thought and planning. I could blame my negligence on constantly being distracted by the seemingly endless [...]

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Comeback Churches – Connecting People to Spiritual Maturity

Well, it took some time but I finally finished Chapter 6 in Comeback Churches. It wasn’t that it was so difficult of a chapter or long or anything. I’ve just been swamped and haven’t had the time to read… and I lose interest about halfway through any book. Today I’m making it intentional to read because [...]

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Comeback Churches – Intentional and Strategic Church Evangelism

Most Comeback Churches develop a more intentional and strategic evangelism process. “Comeback churches think and live evangelism.”
This is the phase we are about to enter into as a church. In many ways we already have with our worship services in the park this summer followed by a free lunch – which has been very intentionally [...]

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Comeback Churches – Worship and Preaching Matters

Chapter 4 – Worship and Preaching Matters
This chapter was pretty basic and blah. The gist of the chapter is this: worship and preaching matter. Comeback churches don’t mount a comeback without changing the way they worship and without a renewed spiritual energy in preaching (but the chapter was much more about worship). While the authors [...]

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Comeback Churches – Three Faith Factors

Chapter Three – Three Faith Factors
“Comeback leaders know that change takes place as the church is renewed spiritually.” This has been my strategy from the outset. When I first came here several people were constantly in my ear about doing this and doing that – making all these changes – and I had to put [...]

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Comeback Churches – Rising with Leadership

Chapter 2 – Rising with Leadership
According to the research, leadership was the number-one factor associated with comeback churches. Indeed, everything either rises or falls with leadership (or the lack thereof). Good leaders help their churches see that their real problems are not ones of style, preference, traditions, or age, but are at their root spiritual. [...]

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Becoming a Comeback Church

I started reading Comeback Churches yesterday. I have been at CBC for a little over 16 months now and I think we have made tremendous strides. Indeed we are a church that is coming back, but we are not there yet. I feel like we’re sitting just below the summit and we need a little extra [...]

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