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The Destructive Mentalities of a Disengaged Church
In this series of posts, I’ve been writing about the concept of church mentalities, and particularly the sorts of mentalities that need to be developed if the church is to be meaningfully engaged with the local community. As painful as … Continue reading
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Mentalities for a Church Engaging the Community
In part one of this series, I talked about how complicated it can be to develop a particular set of mentalities within the church. That’s not all that helpful without some concrete examples of what we mean by mentalities. The … Continue reading
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Developing Church Mentalities
Our church, like many others, is working to broaden its self-understanding, particularly in terms of how we engage the particular community we live in. We want to move from an internally-focused, isolated church to one that is at work transforming … Continue reading
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Tagged church leadership, Community Engagement, leadership, mentalities, outreach, strategy
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