Doing Good is not Good Enough
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Article Highlights
- Doing Good is Not Good Enough
- Continuing to do what we've been doing will only get us further behind.
- Re-tasking the Association -- "mobilizing churches to take on lostness"
- Making the Great Commission our priority
- Training leaders to think more like missionaries
- Continuing to reach the ever-increasing Hispanic population in our city
- Metrics
- Engagement of people groups
- Disciples
- Church vitality
- The Future
- Associations of the past
- The association of the future
- Diversity
- 41% speak a language other than English at home
- 350 different identified ethnolinguistic people groups so far
- Approximately 215 total languages spoken
- Church Growth & the Unchurched Population
- Increasing population while baptisms remain level
- As many as 50% of the population unaffiliated with any religion
- Doing the Math
- At the current rate of church growth, it would take 1,450 years and cost $47.9 billion to reach our current population.
The changing context and our current results suggest it may be time to re-task the association to help churches re-think their Great Commission assignment in light of current realities.
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