Category Archives: Church Trends

18 Church Trends (and More!): Trends 7 & 8

Posted on January 12, 2017 by Jay F Guin

Continuing my highly derivative series on church trends, the next 10 are from an article by church growth consultant and author Thom Rainer: Trend 7: An acceleration of church closures. The death rate of churches is sadly increasing in America. I … Continue reading →

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18 Church Trends (and More!): Trend 6

Posted on January 11, 2017 by Jay F Guin

Continuing my highly derivative series on church trends, the next 10 are from an article by church growth consultant and author Thom Rainer: Trend 6: The multi-site movement becoming a neighborhood church movement. I have written about the multi-site movement many … Continue reading →

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18 Church Trends (and More!): Trend 5

Posted on January 10, 2017 by Jay F Guin

Continuing my highly derivative series on church trends, the next 10 are from an article by church growth consultant and author Thom Rainer: 5. Increased financial fraud in churches. Once again, some of those with ill intent see the church … Continue reading →

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18 Church Trends (and More!): Trend 4

Posted on January 9, 2017 by Jay F Guin

Continuing my highly derivative series on church trends, the next 10 are from an article by church growth consultant and author Thom Rainer: 4. Increased frequency of allegations of child sex abuse in church. Sexual predators see churches as places … Continue reading →

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18 Church Trends (and More!): Trend 3

Posted on January 8, 2017 by Jay F Guin

Continuing my highly derivative series on church trends, the next 10 are from an article by church growth consultant and author Thom Rainer: Trend 3: Renewed emphasis on practical ministries. Many of our churches have gone through a period of theological … Continue reading →

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18 Church Trends (and More!): Trend 2

Posted on January 7, 2017 by Jay F Guin

Continuing my highly derivative series on church trends, the next 10 are from an article by church growth consultant and author Thom Rainer: Trend 2:  Renewed emphasis on evangelism.  Many church leaders want to know how their churches can better … Continue reading →

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18 Church Trends (and More!): Trend 1

Posted on January 6, 2017 by Jay F Guin

Technically, as a blogger, I’m supposed to post on church trends the last week of the year. But I was also supposed to run a series on Advent right after Thanksgiving. And an article defending evergreen wreaths on church doors. … Continue reading →

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Religious Affiliation State-by-State

Posted on August 22, 2011 by Jay F Guin

A faithful reader pointed out to me that USA Today has published the breakdown of religious affiliation state-by-state using a very cool Flash graphical display. Just put your cursor over a state to see the breakdown. The most important category, … Continue reading →

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House Churches and Institutional Churches, Part 9 (Further on Multi-campus Congregations)

Posted on June 23, 2011 by Jay F Guin

Price asked in a comment, Jay…I find it amusing that you attribute many positive attributes to economy of scale and yet you begin to limit that scale to a certain radius…Why? Price, Let’s consider the analogy I offered earlier. No … Continue reading →

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House Churches and Institutional Churches, Part 8 (Multi-campus Congregations)

Posted on June 22, 2011 by Jay F Guin

Inevitably, I suppose, I need to address the phenomenon of the multi-campus congregation. For example, we have in Alabama a non-denominational congregation with campuses in four cities. There’s one sermon delivered by one man each Sunday, and the video of … Continue reading →

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