NUTS & BOLTS
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NUTS & BOLTSJohn 4:27-39 (page 753)
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In order to understand why we do things the way we do, you first need to understand the answer to, “Why does Lake Hills exist?”
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We’re losing America.
Aubrey Malphurs, Planting Growing Churches. Page 13
Why Start New Churches?
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85% of all churches in America are either plateaued or declining.
Aubrey Malphurs, Planting Growing Churches. Page 13
Why Start New Churches?
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Of the 15% that are growing,
14% are doing so by transfer from other churches.
Aubrey Malphurs, Planting Growing Churches. Page 32
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In the last 10 years…
Protestant church attendance has declined by 9.5% (4,498,242)
while the national population has increased by 11.4% (24,153,000).
ASCG Journal of Church Growth. Autumn ‘06
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Only half of the country’s Protestant pastors have a
Biblical worldview.
www.barna.org
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There is a net loss of 48 churches per week,or nearly 7 churches every day.
Barna, George. American Profile.
Why Start New Churches?
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North America is the only continent where Christianity
is NOT growing.
George Gallup. Church World Today.
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Thomas Clegg. “The Need for Church Planting in America”. 1996.
The United States is now the third largest unchurched nation in the world.
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200 million North Americans attend no church.
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Islam and Buddhism are the fastest growing religions
in the United States.
Lost In America, page 31.
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Why Start New Churches?
Evangelical churches have failed to gain even 2% of the American population in the past fifty years.
In other words, we are not even reaching our own children.
Barna, George. American Profile.
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“North America has such a large, unchurched population because of the huge gap between what we say and do, and what they need.”
Lost In America, p.73 (Tom Clegg, Warren Bird)
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What Can I Do?
• Pray Faithfully
• Participate Fully
• Partner Financially
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