By Mike Slaughter
Non secular marketers tells the tale of an cutting edge pastor and management crew who deliberately led their church to take religious dangers. by utilizing six ideas, renewal can come to any church. those six rules are specialize in: (1) Jesus Christ, (2) the Bible, (3) new kinds of worship, (4) a dedication to club, (5) equipping lay humans for ministry, and (6) religious management. Slaughter belives that church leaders are encouraged to paintings tirelessly after they pay attention or examine of good-news tales. He additionally believes that covenants, Christianity education, and an cutting edge small-group constitution are very important in generating high-commitment participants.
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My son just got braces! Renewal broke out at church when the people began to actively do what we had been reading in God's written Word. Jesus was taking us past the information to the place of transformation. Tom and Lisa Jelenek came to Ginghamsburg shortly after they were married in 1983. Tom is an environmental specialist with a large company, and Lisa teaches French at one of the area high schools. Tom made a commitment to Jesus as Savior and Lord during his first year at Ginghamsburg, and both he and Lisa began to grow in Christian discipleship.
Tom and Elaine sold their business and their dream home, and, at age forty-five, set off for Bible school. They spent the next two years exhausting their resources on tuition, living expenses, and the tuition of their two older children, still in college. Today Tom is the admissions director of The Word of Life Bible Center in Schroon Lake, New York. Remember: We do not live to selves, and we do not die to selves. If we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord; so then, whether we live or whether we die, we are the Lord's.
It is a history of personal victory and hope. It is the promise of purpose and direction through Jesus Christ. My formative years fell during the 1960s, when many young people my age were looking for answers to very real problems. I grew up in a fairly typical mainstream church. It was neither hot nor cold. My family rarely missed worship or Sunday school. I remember studying the book Catcher in the Rye in my freshman Sunday school class, with a teacher who claimed to be agnostic. My church was offering no prophetic messages of hope or purpose.
