In this week's conversation between Dr. James Emery White and co-host Alexis Drye, they serve up a helpful outline of six transcendent values that have allowed Mecklenburg Community Church to beat the odds when it comes to the decline facing churches across the U.S. and around the globe. With the seismic cultural changes and challenges facing churches, it can be easy to get discouraged. Hopefully, this conversation will help to serve your church.

Episode Links

If you missed last week's podcast, we hope that you'll go back and listen to that episode. In it, Dr. White gives an overview of what will likely dominate life and culture in 2024, and how the church must respond. You can find that episode titled CCP89: On Concerning Predictions for 2024 HERE.

There are a number of blogs that Dr. White has written related to the six values outlined in today's conversation. Rather than list them all, we'd encourage you to check out the Church & Culture blog archive where you can find all of his past writings.

Finally, there are three books that we'd like to recommend related to church growth and life:

Hybrid Church: Rethinking the Church for a Post-Christian Digital Age

What They Didn't Teach You in Seminary

Rethinking the Church

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