Saturday, August 15, 2015

Church Turnarounds: A Research Review [PDF]


Little research exists on church turn-arounds. This is perhaps understandable, since to study how struggling churches turn around, one has to study what is making them fail, and now one likes failure. (As the old aphorism goes: “Success has a hundred parents, but failure is an orphan.”) Yet such knowledge is critical if we hope to have a chance at turning around struggling parishes. There are two studies on this subject that are worthy of note. They can be found in the following books or articles.... Keep reading

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