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		<title>The Top Five Reasons Churches Don&#8217;t Grow</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When I get called in as a consultant to work with stuck, plateaued, or declining churches I have a couple of things I look for right off the bat. In the vast majority of the cases I discover that their inability to grow, let alone sustain, their membership is caused by one of six issues. [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billtennybrittian.com/getting-started-at-the-ground-level/the-top-five-reasons-churches-dont-grow/ </link>
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		<title>A Christmas Carol</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Every time I pick up a mainline hymnal that was printed anytime after 1990 I get just a little bit disgusted. In an effort to save our sensibilities and to be as politically/theologically &#8220;correct&#8221; as possible, many of the old hyms were lyrically changed. Now, I&#8217;m all for inclusive language and all that, but I [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billtennybrittian.com/getting-started-at-the-ground-level/a-christmas-carol/ </link>
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		<title>Planting Priorities</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The other day I got a Twitter question from Phil Longmire, a church planter in Richmond, TX. We were talking about church planting priorities and I was saying how important it is for planters to be out of the office, away from the computer, and out in the public&#8217;s eye. So he Tweeted me and [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billtennybrittian.com/getting-started-at-the-ground-level/planting-priorities/ </link>
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		<title>The Fortune Cookie</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Imagine finishing your meal at the Great Wall Chinese Restaurant. The server brings you the bill and snuggled up against it is a very special Fortune Cookie. I say it’s special because this time it’s going to accurately predict the future. With great anticipation you break open the cookie and eat it completely before you [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billtennybrittian.com/getting-started-at-the-ground-level/the-fortune-cookie/ </link>
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		<title>Confronting the Church&#8217;s Fog Horns</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I received a question from a recent seminar participant that was buried in one of the comments. I started to answer it there, but when I finished I realized it was way too long to be just a comment &#8230; so I repost it here.
The question was &#8220;So, how does one confront the “Fog Horns” [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billtennybrittian.com/chatter/confronting-the-churchs-fog-horns/ </link>
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		<title>Idealism and the Missional Church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Over the past several weeks I&#8217;ve had the opportunity to speak to various crowds of church leaders and talk about church transformational issues. I&#8217;ve noticed that I can generally divide the audience into two groups: those who want to get it and so are open to giving the presentation a listen, and those who don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billtennybrittian.com/got-a-foundation-lets-build/idealism_and_the_missional_church/ </link>
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		<title>Communications and the Church</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I recently had a great conversation with an older member of a fast-shrinking congregation. She was looking for resources on how to improve communications within her congregation and she was finding precious few resources &#8230; could I help? Sure, I could help. But before we went further, I asked her to tell me what she [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billtennybrittian.com/got-a-foundation-lets-build/communications-and-the-church/ </link>
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		<title>Worship and Learning Styles</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Once upon a time, I used to teach. It was a one room schoolhouse with up to twelve kids ages preschool through seniors in high school. I taught the ABCs, 123s, algebra, trig, chemistry, history, social sciences, and pretty much everything else. In order to make this gig work, I was trained in what we [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billtennybrittian.com/getting-started-at-the-ground-level/worship-and-learning-styles/ </link>
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		<title>The High Cost of Tranformation II</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Another one bites the dust. If I had a dollar for every pastor who started the transformation process and ended up leaving the church and/or ministry, I could have retired long ago. But here we go again. Earlier in the month I wrote about a church that was embroiled in battle over transformation and the [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billtennybrittian.com/got-a-foundation-lets-build/the-high-cost-of-tranformation-ii/ </link>
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		<title>Hiring Church Staff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I was involved in a conversation earlier today about hiring a staff member at a church. Hiring staff can be a real sticky situation. In some churches, the denomination does the hiring. That can be a huge issue that I don&#8217;t personally &#8220;get.&#8221; What happens if the Lead Pastor (or in a larger multi-staff church [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.billtennybrittian.com/getting-started-at-the-ground-level/hiring-church-staff/ </link>
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