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Gaining By Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send is unavailable, but you can change that!

People are leaving the church J.D. Greear pastors. Big givers. Key volunteers. Some of his best leaders and friends. And that’s exactly how he wants it to be. When Jesus gave his disciples the Great Commission, he revealed that the key for reaching the world with the gospel is found in sending, not gathering. Though many churches focus time and energy on attracting people and counting numbers,...

and wonder at the 10 billion steps he took toward us when he came to rescue us in Christ.4 So when Paul aims to cultivate generosity of spirit in us, he points us toward the generosity of Christ for us. For many years, my favorite tool for compelling generosity was guilt. “How can you live in such abundance when so many languish in squalor? Do you realize how many orphans you could feed for the price of that Frappuccino? Are you ready to face Jesus, having lived on so