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”Is there hope for the church?” with Rev Frank Ritchie

In the Shift

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Is Growing Out Churches the Primary Focus?

i push back against that notion that growing out churches is the primary, sort of, pre eminent focus for us in church life. And i just want to put on the table that this is not a push against big churches. There's some elements of certain types of big churches that i think are dangerous. The average church size around the globe has been about 70 people and our statistics in new zealand continues to be on the decline. So god must really stink at what he does. Or is it that god actually quite likes that sized community,. because that sized community knits together relatively easily. They ol know each other, they know each other's needs. Ah, where things have to,

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