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BL
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1002365
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b756735
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| Main Entry
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Schaller, Lyle E.
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| Title & Author
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Create your own future! /\ Lyle E. Schaller.
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| Publication Statement
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Nashville, TN :: Abingdon Press,, ©1991.
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| Page. NO
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159 pages ;; 22 cm
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| ISBN
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0687098467
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: 9780687098460
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-144).
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| Contents
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Choosing a beginning point : Six common beginning points -- The healthy congregation -- Counting is a prerequisite to planning -- What is our niche? -- Two beginning points for growth -- Reversing the decline in the large Church -- Looking at entry points -- What can happen? -- The Quest for quality : Age or generation? -- What is acceptable today? -- Reading the election returns : Can this be a useful beginning point? -- Carving out a niche : The Importance of that third place -- To do or to be? -- Eight influential changes -- What does this mean? -- Seven altenatives -- What is our niche? -- What are the possibilites?
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What does it cost to go to church? : Measuring unit costs -- Where does it go? -- Another potential beginning point -- Up or down? -- What are the variables? -- Tradition or market? : A useful beginning point -- That market-driven minority -- Two questionss for your committee -- No surprises! : What are assumptions? -- To study or to act? : Five choices -- The Best choice -- Implementing the plan : What happens next? -- What did they do? -- The Influence of momentum -- Overcoming resistance.
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Where and how do we intervene? : Three predictable patterns -- Why not the board? -- Potential points of intervention -- What are the choices? -- Why? -- Summary -- Creating that committee : Participation or performance? -- Informed or uninformed discussions? -- Who should not be on it? -- Avoid self-defeating behavior! -- Who do you want? -- Why not a representative committee? -- Who chooses them? -- The Greatest danger -- What are reasonable expectations? : Grand design or single issue? -- Incremental change or magic bullet? -- Exceptions and fringe benefits.
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Church growth.
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Church management.
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Church growth.
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Church management.
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| Dewey Classification
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254
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BV652.5.S315 1991
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