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There's Hope for Your Church: First Steps to Restoring Health and Growth is unavailable, but you can change that!

A startling 85% of churches in the US are plateaued or declining, a trend that has been building for the past fifty years. In the face of shrinking attendance and lagging spiritual growth, pastors and church leaders are understandably discouraged and demoralized. But the first step to turning things around is hope. Church health expert Gary McIntosh offers this hope by showing church leaders the...

bearing fruit and increasing? It can happen. God expects it. There is hope for your church, just as there is for all churches that obediently follow God’s commands. Second, God revitalizes and restores people, nations, and churches that have lost spiritual energy. The Old Testament records several cycles of rebellion, repentance, and restoration in the book of Judges. Whenever the nation rebelled and then repented, God raised up a new leader called a judge—Othniel, Ehud, Deborah, Gideon, Jephthah,
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