Tuesday, January 18, 2011

Alan Hirsch: Church Growth Model Reaching Only 40 Percent of Americans


"This is a problem because 95 percent of American churches are using a model that even if successful will reach less than half the population, said Alan Hirsch, an internationally recognized missiologist and founding director of Forge Mission Training Network."

Here's the whole article.


My wife Kristi and I got to spend the day with a group of ten others and Alan Hirsch last November.  He has some interesting and challenging things for all kinds of churches to consider.  What I like most about him, though, is his frequent references to following the Holy Spirit in finding the way to best express the Good News to various types.  Some expressions might be really different from what we're used to.

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