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How to Start a Lay Church, Principle VIII: Measure the Growth of Each Member Weekly

It’s a fair question to ask: Is spiritual growth really measurable? What would we measure? And how would we measure it? Some Christians cringe at the very idea of trying to measure spiritual things. They think of spiritual things as … Continue reading

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How to Start a Lay Church, Principle VII: Commit to the Inseparability of Hearing and Doing the Word

“Everyone then who hears these words of mine and does them,” says Jesus in Matthew 7:24-25, “will be like a wise man who built his house on the rock. And the rain fell, and the floods came, and the winds … Continue reading

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How to Start a Lay Church, Principle V: Meet in Places that You Already Use

Don’t rent or buy a building for your lay church. For a number of reasons that will be especially apparent long about Principle 12, no lay church should be gobbling up lots of people anyway. If it does, it will … Continue reading

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