Friday, April 18, 2014

HOW FAST SHOULD A NEW CHURCH GROW?




As the guy who has coached the fastest growing new church in the UMC for the last four and one half years, I should add that I have also coached some of the slowest growing new churches.  In a few cases, new church projects just fail to take root, and we need to close the project, making a note of lessons learned.  In most cases, however, where excellent church plants grow slowly it is because they are relating to a different audience than the fastest growing new church mentioned above.