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The Everychurch Guide to Growth: How Any Plateaued Church Can Grow is unavailable, but you can change that!

A growing church is a living church, but much of the attention in church growth today is focused on making big churches bigger. This encouraging new book shows members of small and medium-sized congregations how to revive and expand their ministries as well. Churches of every size tend to plateau in attendance and never break free of their self-imposed limitations or 'growth barriers'. This book...

6. Switch from the shepherd mode of pastoring to the rancher mode. Of all the changes that need to be made in a small church if it is ever to cross the 200 barrier, two stand head and shoulders above the rest: (1) transitioning from a single-cell to a multicelled church, and (2) switching from the shepherd mode of pastoring to the rancher mode. Not only are these changes necessary, but they are particularly difficult because they are the two changes most predictably resisted by the majority of church