In his book Comeback Churches, Ed Stetzer said:
Comeback churches cast a compelling vision for outreach. They made intentional, strategic efforts to move outward.
** - The main reason a church does not grow is that it doesn’t want to grow.
Everyone in the church should be engaged in three ways:
They should be pray-ers.
Pray by name for those the church is trying to reach.
They should be bring-ers.
The first thing Andrew did was to find his brother Simon. About half the congregation will bring someone on a Friends
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