The renewal of a rural church affliated with a mainline denomination : insights and strategies for growth / by Lee Ault.

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Contents:
Shifting of Denominational Power -- The Impact of Geographic and Cultural Changes -- Membership Loss not due to Dropping Out -- Attitudes Affect Change -- Four Causes Breaking the Pattern of Mainline Church Membership for Young Believers -- Cause #1: Liberal Theology -- Cause #2: Church as a Spectator Sport -- Cause #3: Personal Evangelism Replaced by Membership Programs -- Cause #4: Rigid Order Replaces Ardor.
Developing Leadership Potential -- Being Yourself; Knowing Your Relationship with God -- Needed Components - What Makes Leadership Christian -- Discipline and Balance: Keys to Leadership -- The Pastor's Unique Role is Reproduction.
What is a Rural Church -- Four Who Responded to Rural Church Call -- Four Growing Rural Congregations -- The Rev. David Redding -- The Rev. Joe Byrne -- The Rev. Lawrence Bodley -- Mr. Lee Ault -- Commonality of Methodology for Growth.
Followership: The Forgotten Dimension -- Interdependency is a Basic Dynamic -- Two Categories of Lay Leaders -- Objective is Church Growth.
Old Testament Revival -- Revival Through the Church -- When to Look for Revival -- The Revived Grow -- Five Conditions for Small Church Growth.
Qualities of a Growth Leader -- Responding to the Call.
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Ministry Perspective Project submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the degree of Master of Arts, Columbia Biblical Seminary and Graduate School of Missions, Columbia, South Carolina, 1991.

Bibliography: leaves 63-66.

I. Numberical Decline in the Mainline Church

Statistical Data of Presbyterian Church (USA) -- Shifting of Denominational Power -- The Impact of Geographic and Cultural Changes -- Membership Loss not due to Dropping Out -- Attitudes Affect Change -- Four Causes Breaking the Pattern of Mainline Church Membership for Young Believers -- Cause #1: Liberal Theology -- Cause #2: Church as a Spectator Sport -- Cause #3: Personal Evangelism Replaced by Membership Programs -- Cause #4: Rigid Order Replaces Ardor.

II. The Pastor and Spiritual Reform

Attitude Permeates Emphasis -- Developing Leadership Potential -- Being Yourself; Knowing Your Relationship with God -- Needed Components - What Makes Leadership Christian -- Discipline and Balance: Keys to Leadership -- The Pastor's Unique Role is Reproduction.

III. Effective Presbyterian Rural Church Leadership Today

Defining Church Size -- What is a Rural Church -- Four Who Responded to Rural Church Call -- Four Growing Rural Congregations -- The Rev. David Redding -- The Rev. Joe Byrne -- The Rev. Lawrence Bodley -- Mr. Lee Ault -- Commonality of Methodology for Growth.

IV. Leaders and Followers

Relationships With Other Churches -- Followership: The Forgotten Dimension -- Interdependency is a Basic Dynamic -- Two Categories of Lay Leaders -- Objective is Church Growth.

V. Conversion and Revival

New Testament Conversion -- Old Testament Revival -- Revival Through the Church -- When to Look for Revival -- The Revived Grow -- Five Conditions for Small Church Growth.

Virgin Islands Summary

Will the Presbyterian Church Survive? -- Qualities of a Growth Leader -- Responding to the Call.

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