Crossroads: The Fast-to-Curring Church in America

After 26 years, how do you find gas in the tank to keep going? Well, we were Fast-to-Curring Church by Outreach Magazine two, three years. And then after that last year, which if it was 2000, I don't know if it was the first or the last year,. After that one, I said, let's not turn our numbers anymore. Let's go out on top. So we got off the list. We stopped turning in our numbers. It wasn't too long after that that we hit a plateau. Some of that was due to getting so focused on growth and organizational mechanics that we lost sight of pastoring people. Part of it was