We celebrate episode 500 with donuts and a discussion on why churches are really cranking up their intentional outreach this year.
Some highlights from today’s episode include:
- Easy church growth due to reaching cultural Christians is no longer viable for churches.
- Churches have moved away from programmatic outreach and evangelism but are still looking to and relying on tools to help them reach non-Christians.
- Too much church outreach is not tied closely enough to evangelism and reaching non-Christians.
- Thank you listeners for 500 episodes of Rainer on Leadership.
The five reasons that we discuss are:
- They understand the implications of the death of cultural Christianity.
- Inertia requires a major push to overcome.
- New tools will emerge.
- Many churches will re-engage attendance growth.
- It will become an accountability issue for church leaders.
Resources mentioned in today’s podcast
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