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    Overcoming Barriers to Church Growth: Proven Strategies for Taking Your Church to the Next Level
    Overcoming Barriers to Church Growth: Proven Strategies for Taking Your Church to the Next Level
    Overcoming Barriers to Church Growth: Proven Strategies for Taking Your Church to the Next Level
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    Overcoming Barriers to Church Growth: Proven Strategies for Taking Your Church to the Next Level

    By Michael Fletcher and C. Wagner

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    Passionate about church growth, Michael Fletcher understands the obstacles pastors and church leaders face as they reach 100/200 and 700/800-member barriers. In clear language he lays out practical steps churches can follow to achieve the growth they desire. His strategies have proved effective not only in his church, which has grown dramatically, but also in the churches of Grace Churches International, a worldwide network of 315-plus churches that he leads.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherBaker Publishing Group
    Release dateAug 1, 2009
    ISBN9781441209863
    Overcoming Barriers to Church Growth: Proven Strategies for Taking Your Church to the Next Level
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    Michael Fletcher

    Michael led Manna Church from 350 to over 8500 members by focusing primarily on effective outreach and leadership development. Under his leadership, Manna Church has planted, or partnered to plant, over 75 churches worldwide and is engaged in a "multiply" strategy with a vision to plant an expression of Manna Church near every US military base in the world. Michael and his wife Laura, love endurance sports, both with over 25 marathon finishes. In addition, Michael enjoys triathlon (3 Ironman finishes) and Laura competes in ultra-marathons. They have 8 children, 19 grandchildren, and live in Fayetteville, NC.  

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      Overcoming Barriers to Church Growth - Michael Fletcher

      change!

      The Power

      of Vision

      CHAPTER ONE

      NOT LONG AGO I asked a group of some thirty young men whom I was training for full-time ministry a question that brought varied and thoughtful answers. What is the most important thing to make a church or ministry successful? Although each was convinced his answer was correct, and most identified a piece of the puzzle for a church’s overall long-term health, all but three missed the mark. If we have learned one thing from the church growth movement over the years, it is that effective leadership must be present for growth to occur.

      What is the magic of leadership? Why is it so important in taking a church or ministry where God wants it to go? The answer is this: It isn’t really leadership itself or even the personality of the leader that moves a church or ministry along, but the natural outworking or application of that leadership gift within the person of the leader. Simply put, it is what good leaders naturally do that produces and sustains momentum. Let me

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