Key steps to grow your church

How do we grow our churches spiritually and numerically? This page includes articles, links and book sugggestions for you, and your church, too.

The following articles were written by Richard King, Archdeacon for Mission and Discipleship for The Messenger. 

• How did Jesus make disciples?
• Why Mission? It's because our God is a Missional God!
• Why Mission? Because we’re not in Kansas anymore, Toto! Christendom is over.
  See a sermon on this topic as well
• Post-Christendom mission means seeing things with fresh eyes.
• Getting the basics right: Open wide the front door.
• Getting the basics right: Closing your church's back door.
• Why Don't People Come to Church on Sunday Anymore?
• A 'Fresh Expression of Church' - introduction
• A 'Fresh Expression of Church' - what it is not
• A 'Fresh Expression of Church' - what it is meant to be