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The Great Evangelical Recession

6 Factors That Will Crash the American Church... and How to Prepare

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Notes: Written by an investigative journalist before he became a pastor, and the method shows: the six chapters of part one each take one measurable trend -- attendance figures held to be inflated, giving, generational attrition -- and read it as an economist would read a recession. The appendices answer the two objections the argument invites.
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Introduction: The Great Recession
Part 1: Six Trends of Decline
- 1. Inflated
- 2. Hated
- 3. Dividing
- 4. Bankrupt
- 5. Bleeding
- 6. Sputtering
Part 2: Six Solutions for Recovery
- 7. Re-valuing
- 8. Good
- 9. Uniting
- 10. Solvent
- 11. Healing
- 12. Re-igniting
Conclusion: The Moment of Decision
Appendices
- Is the Author's Church Declining? Maybe That's Why He's Pessimistic
- Aren't There Positive Things Happening in Evangelicalism, Too?
- Defining "Evangelical"