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Tag Archives: Ed Stetzer
Church Plants and Missions: Mistakes to Avoid in Church Planting
I don’t often post videos (other than music), because I don’t have the patience (or time) to listen to a video when I can read so much more in the same time — and there’s so much worthwhile reading out … Continue reading
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Ed Stetzer on Reversing Our Decline: The Cure — Networking
In the latest issue of Outreach Magazine, Ed Stetzer makes a point that caught me a little off guard — but I think it’s exactly right: Networking will go a long way toward fixing our churches. It’s not the cure, … Continue reading
Ed Stetzer on Reversing Our Decline: The Cure, Part 2
So what do we do?We cannot simply mandate how churches, pastors, and believers live. Our theological convictions of the priesthood of all believers and local autonomy of the church lead us to allow each church to heed God’s will on … Continue reading
Ed Stetzer on Reversing Our Decline: The Cure, Part 1
Any correct answer will blame us all — our institutions, our elders, our ministers, and our members. And while the members are hardly free from fault, I think those with the greatest influence get most of the blame — our … Continue reading
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Tagged All, Church of Christ Links, Ed Stetzer, eldership, legalism, preaching
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Ed Stetzer on Reversing Our Decline: Denial
At this point, we pick up with Stetzer’s 2009 post, building on the 2008 post we’ve just covered. The SBC declined again this year in both membership and baptisms. You can read the news story here. There is some encouraging … Continue reading
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The Blue Parakeet/Ed Stetzer: A Conversation About the Flood and Inerrancy
The scene is a table in a smokey barbecue restaurant. An elder (Ed), a deacon (Dan), and the head of the adult Bible class program (Harry) are eating to discuss curriculum. Harry: I really appreciate you all joining me for lunch. … Continue reading
Ed Stetzer on Reversing Our Decline: Gospel Focus
The third, and most important, issue is our loss of focus on the Gospel. I find it difficult to even say such a thing, but, I believe it to be true. We must recover a gospel centrality and cooperate in … Continue reading
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Ed Stetzer on Reversing Our Decline: Infighting
A second issue is the infighting which defines so much of the SBC—its meetings, its churches, and its blogs. It is public knowledge that we do not always settle our differences amicably. The national caricature once again colors many local … Continue reading
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Tagged All, church decline, Church of Christ Links, doctrine, Ed Stetzer, Flavil Yeakley
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Ed Stetzer on Reversing Our Decline: Leaders
Back in April 2008, Ed Stetzer wrote a post on how to reverse the decline in the Southern Baptist Churches (SBC). He’s just followed that up with some additional thoughts following a year of experience and reflection. Stetzer is a … Continue reading
Churches of Christ in Decline?: Prescription for the Baptists
An excellent post by Ed Stetzer on the declining numbers within the Southern Baptist Churches. It’s amazing how similar our problems (and the solutions) are.
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