The Importance of Pruning and Gaining Focus

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The speaker emphasizes the significance of pruning for the church's mission and ministry strategy, discussing the difficulties of investing resources in ministries that are being handed off and aligning personal callings with the overall mission. They provide advice on following three steps, doing it as a team, seeking facilitation for difficult conversations, pausing emotional discussions, and preview the next week's episode on tackling the stopping and pruning process.

The research is clear: encouraging people to engage in more programs and church activity doesn’t produce spiritual growth. If we’re truly in the disciple-making business, then adding more programs and events is actually working against church health.

In this episode, Tony and Amy are getting practical on the steps churches must take in order to identify the programs and events they need to stop or pause in 2023.

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