2. 1. From senior pastor to lead pastor
2. From trust to trials
3. From denominational to quasi-denominational
4. From solo preacher to multiple teachers
5. From attractional to incarnational
6. From geography to affinity
7. From low expectation to high expectation
7 Paradigm Shifts in American Churches
3. 5. From attractional to incarnational
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Not too long ago, churches utilized
significant resources to get people to come
to the church building. More today are
expending resources to move the
members to minister in the community.
4. Forget the former things;
do not dwell on the past.
See, I am doing a new thing!
Now it springs up;
do you not perceive it?
I am making a way
in the wilderness
and streams in the wasteland.
- Isaiah 43:18-19
5. “Church has to be
less about going to the movies and
more about going to the gym.”
- Frances Chan