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		<title>Why Most Church Consultations Don&#8217;t Make a Long Term Difference</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 Aug 2010 18:44:49 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill T-B</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[We at 21st Century Strategies have been doing church consultations for over twenty-three years and we&#8217;ve had the opportunity to study why some churches thrive after a consultant has done their job, and why other churches fail. Conversations with other church consultants reveal a lot of the same data. Here&#8217;s the bottom line: for most [...]]]></description>
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		<title>How Effective is Your Church&#8217;s Website?</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Aug 2010 19:56:13 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill T-B</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church Planting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[The number is climbing, but here&#8217;s the most commonly reported stat: at least 85 percent of first time church guests visit a congregation&#8217;s website before they make their initial visit. For some of you, this should be a terrifying thought. Recently, I&#8217;ve visited church websites that are still advertising Easter Sunrise Services, introducing their new [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Maximizing Your Church&#8217;s ROI (Return On Investment)</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 Jul 2010 20:08:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill T-B</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Adult Faith Formation]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Unless you&#8217;re a church leader in a very large church, you&#8217;re probably aware that your congregation probably has limited resources (and in today&#8217;s economy, even large churches are struggling with decreasing resources). During those times when resources are exceptionally limited, it&#8217;s more important than ever to be very careful where you invest them. Every investor [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flip Your Church Step 4: Become Missionary to the Community</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 01 Jul 2010 17:05:16 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill T-B</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[(Deu 10:19)  You shall also love the stranger, for you were strangers in the land of Egypt. I heard a great sermon the other day that spoke about our strangeness. God reminds the Hebrews that they’re to love the stranger because they were once strangers. As members of the church, we often forget who the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flipping a Church Step 3: Develop Congregational Unity</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Jun 2010 17:05:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill T-B</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church Planting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[For some, the thought of congregational unity may be more like a fantasythan a vision of reality, and yet there are churches dotted across the nation that are not only missionally aligned, they are unified in all they do. That doesn’t mean the members are all automatons or that everyone agrees with everything. In fact, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Flipping a Church Step 2: Embrace and Embody the Mission</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 26 Jun 2010 17:06:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill T-B</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Churches and church leaders committed to becoming missional must build on five principles. The first, modeling the Christian faith was covered in a previous post. The second pillar of the missional church is, probably unsurprisingly, embracing the church’s mission. The creation of mission statements really came into its own a couple of decades ago. Since [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The DIY Consultation</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 01:56:44 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill T-B</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Leadership Development]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[From the beginning of 21st Century Strategies, a long, long time ago, we’ve had one driving value: help transform churches. We suspect that pretty much all our readers understand that one of the ways we do that is by offering professional consultation services, church leadership coaching, and congregational training. What many folks may not realize [...]]]></description>
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		<title>The Multi-Site Road Trip</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Dec 2009 13:00:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill T-B</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I was invited to check out the newest book by Geoff Surratt, Greg Ligon, and Warren Bird A Multi-Site Church Road Trip (look for its review in Net Results in the March-April 2010 issue). After reading the book, I proffered a question to the authors. The question and the answer is posted below. The authors [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ancient Role Models &#8211; Learning From Those Who Didn&#8217;t Get It Right &#8230; At First</title>
		<link>http://www.billtennybrittian.com/archives/395</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Nov 2009 04:43:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill T-B</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Church Planting]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Acts 1:8. You probably know the passage by heart: &#8220;You will be my witnesses from Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.&#8221; Those words were spoken to the apostles just before Jesus left them in charge. And of course, we know the rest of the story, don&#8217;t we? [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A Christmas Eve Church Fantasy &#8230; Or Not</title>
		<link>http://www.billtennybrittian.com/archives/389</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 02 Nov 2009 14:12:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Bill T-B</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Revitalizing Existing Churches]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post comes from my Editor&#8217;s Foreward in the Nov-Dec issue of Net Results, North America&#8217;s most enduring and trusted church growth and evangelism magazine (for which I&#8217;m the managing editor). You can check out the whole issue at www.NetResults.org. The following account is a compilation of four or five church visits. It takes the [...]]]></description>
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