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	<title>Church Growth Ideas</title>
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	<description>Ideas on how to grow your Church and Ministry</description>
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		<title>Biblical Church Growth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[What does the Bible say about church growth? With the desire in our society for everything to be bigger and flashier how does that work when we look at growing our church? Does God want us to be like society, building up to church to meet the felt needs of people and to entertain them? [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://churchgrowthideas.com/biblical-church-growth/</link>
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		<title>Principles Of Church Growth In The Early Church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[INTRODUCTION This article presents the concept of &#8216;church growth&#8217; alongside evangelism mainly in the book of Acts. Whereas the Old Testament depicts evangelism as people coming to God, the Lucan perspective demonstrates that God&#8217;s servants will go to His people. Blauw&#8217;s thesis is that &#34;a centripetal missionary consciousness becomes in Acts a centrifugal missionary activity&#8230;&#34; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://churchgrowthideas.com/principles-of-church-growth-in-the-early-church/</link>
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		<title>Have You Done a Church Assessment?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[One of the pastors who’s blog I enjoy reading is Kevin Martineau. He is the pastor at Port Hardy Baptist Church in British Columbia on Vancouver Island. Recently his church has been going through a process of consultation and assessment. They brought in an outside group to do the assessment, which consists of three parts: [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://churchgrowthideas.com/have-you-done-a-church-assessment/</link>
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		<title>David Dean&#8217;s Ideas for Church Growth</title>
		<description><![CDATA[David Dean is a well known Christian Comedian. He has some rather interesting ideas on church growth that I thought I would share with you … Some of the points about church growth that he makes in the video are: 1. Select your church greeter carefully 2. Use your 4th grade boys as greaters, after [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://churchgrowthideas.com/david-deans-ideas-for-church-growth/</link>
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		<title>Does Your Church Use Welcome or Visitor Cards?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Does your church use welcome cards or visitor cards for people new to your church? They can be a key tool to help you connect with new people in your church. I have attended many different churches over the years and have found that not all churches use welcome cards or visitor cards. By welcome [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://churchgrowthideas.com/does-your-church-use-welcome-or-visitor-cards/</link>
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		<title>What Are Your Church Goals?</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Setting goals is something that is extremely important in every aspect of our lives, personally and professionally. As anyone in church ministry would know, it is extremely important to set goals for our church and ministry. Below is a guess article by Shane Boyd about the importance of writing down our goals. Hey Pastor &#8211; [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://churchgrowthideas.com/what-are-your-church-goals/</link>
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		<title>Video &#8211; How to Organize a Growing Church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[How To Organize a Growing Church? Here&#8217;s a great video by Rick Warren, a pastor from Saddleback Church.]]></description>
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