When your best members leave the church
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“Most pastors will not be pastoring growing churches. Admit it. We think success is a growing church and failure is a shrinking church. Sometimes those are true. More often not, I believe.” - Thornton
“What Exactly Should We Be Looking For?”: Reflections on My Recent Search for a Church
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“As we walked through the doors of various new churches, struck up conversations with believers, and sat under preaching from different teachers, we wrestled with the line between preference and belief, between well-meaning mediocrity and maturing faithfulness to the Word of God.
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“Why stay in a church with difficult people?...there is a special kind of sanctification that can only happen in a family.”
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“The household of faith that Paul talks about is the place where you are voluntarily around people that you don’t like or have let you down.” - F&T
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10 Questions to Ask When Looking for a New Church
Looking for a new church can be an exciting process, but it can also be discouraging and even frustrating. Here are 10 questions that may help you work through that process—5 you should ask before you leave your current fellowship, and 5 you should ask before you arrive at the new one.
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Before You Decide to Leave
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