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Rising from the Ashes into Church Renewal
About this book
The church did not start off wanting to decline. No church planter ever thinks the church they pour their heart and soul into will close. So, what happened? It was a question Desmond Barrett asked walking into his new assignment. There is a stigma that an aging congregation is a dying congregation. If a pastor is asked to go to an aging church and buildings with a host of deferred maintenance, many will run in the other direction. Who would blame them? However, there are pastors who feel the call to serve the comeback church and who see hope in decline. Countless pastors before and since have asked, Is God done with the local church that has seen better days? If not, are you being called to a church that is seen as hopeless, but God sees as hope-filled? To pastors or laypersons in the church, the legacy church needs you. It needs your wisdom and support.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Chapter 1: How Did It Get So Bad?
- Chapter 2: Rebuilding After Decline
- Chapter 3: Using Prayer to Focus the Church
- Chapter 4: Do the Work Today for Success Tomorrow
- Chapter 5: A Five-Year Cycle to Church Revitalization
- Chapter 6: Dreaming Through the Difficulty
- Chapter 7: Future-Forward Budgeting
- Chapter 8: Win One for Jesus
- Chapter 9: Believe Again: Dreaming Forward
- Chapter 10: The End Was Just the Beginning
- Epilogue: When God’s Call Became My Yes
- Other Books by the Author
- Bibliography