Healing Spiritual Amnesia

There are no end to clichés and easy assumptions about congregational health and vitality. It's much easier to start a new church than turn around an old one; nondenominational churches are growing, while denominational churches are dying; small-membership churches are concerned only with survival; suburban churches care only about endless programming and ''spiritual entertainment''; downtown churches are doomed to decay. Whatever kernel of truth such analyses might contain, they miss the actual