Sunday, February 04, 2007

Types of Church (Life-Cycle)

With acknowledgement - and apologies - to Dean Jensen, churches and maybe ministers will typically go through the following faces from birth to death:

Aspiring / Arriving / Acquiring - needs resourcing / recruiting
Becoming / Booming / Blossoming - needs refreshing
Comforting / Complacent / Coasting - needs reform
Declining / Decaying / Dying / Done(-in) - needs re-inventing
Exstinct - needs removal

I'm sure you can think of better ones.

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