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Winter 1981: Success & Church Growth

Volume 2
Winter

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In this Issue
Outreach
Comments From the Executive Editor
Paul D. Robbins
Problems From Readers
Outreach
Haphazardly Intent: An Approach to Pastoring
An interview with Eugene Peterson
Harold Myra, Terry Muck and Dan Pawley
Working With Volunteer Secretaries
Eugene H. Peterson
Exploring The Inner Dynamics of Success
Paul Tournier
The Passover Potluck
Returning meaning to the communion service.
Jeanne Doering
Trauma and Betrayal
Experiences of Leadership Readers
Harold L. Myra
Forgiveness
Jamie Buckingham
What's So Great About Success?
Before people decide on a full-time ministry, they must realize God may be calling him or her to a ministry of tedious mediocrity.
Vernon C. Grounds
Outreach
Success in Three Churches: Diversity and Originality
Tom Minnery reports on three churches that are radically different from one another, yet successful in light of their view of mission.
Tom Minnery
Outreach
Good Pastors Don't Make Churches Grow
One of the leading spokesmen of the church growth movement outlines what he believes increases the membership of a church.
C. Peter Wagner
MY CHOICE OF BOOKS
Stanley Long shares five books that are helping him in ministry.
Stanley B. Long
Discipleship
BOOK COMMENTARY
Outreach
To Build or Not to Build
No easy answers exist, but here are examples of congregations thoughtfully struggling to develop facilities without going bankrupt.
Daniel W. Pawley
IDEAS THAT WORK
Donald L. Bubna
Something I Learned From Maxey Jarman
He built a billion-dolar corporation, but neither success nor failure were crucial to his interior life. He treated those two impostors just the same.
Fred Smith
Organizing Volunteer Visitation
Why Are Session Meetings So Boring?
Maybe it's not just a matter of poor leadership and weary volunteers yearning to go home…
Ben Patterson
Discipleship
TIPS, TRENDS & RESOURCES
Daniel Pawley
Discipleship
The Greening Of A Discussion Leader
Good discussions don't just happen. Here's how one leader started out and failed--but through trial and error discovered what makes discussion work.
Emory A. Griffin
Discipleship
Where To Hold A Discussion
Emory Griffin
CRITICISM: FROM STUMBLING BLOCK TO STEPPINGSTONE
We all feel wounded by a critic's arrows, but they can become goads to progress.
William Boggs
Just an Associate Pastor
One man's experience of the first few years after seminary--mortification and edification.
David Epps
Outreach
LEADERSHIP FORUM
Church growth is a worthy goal, but is it a measuring stick for success? Observations from five church leaders.
Confessions of a Workaholic
Ralph Milton
Outreach
LEADERSHIP BIBLIOGRAPHY
Paul Borthwick
From the Publisher
A Message from the Publisher: January 01, 1981
Harold L. Myra
Robert Schuller's Irrepressible Legacy
Robert Schuller's Irrepressible Legacy
Reflections from the life of a ministry pioneer.
Robert H. Schuller

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