Episode 38: Church Replanting, Church Revitalization, and Help For Struggling Churches with Bob Bickford. Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast. + Dangers of Soda Racism.

Every Church Flourishing 38 With Bob Bickford. Title: Culture Eats Strategy For Breakfast. Church Replanting, Church Revitalization, and Help For Struggling Churches with Bob Bickford. FIND YOUR DOTTIES. The Dangers of Soda Racism. If you don't deal with your church's problems because you don't want people to leave, the truth is that people will leave BECAUSE you aren't dealing with your church's problems. Put a gifted pastor in the wrong culture and that culture will eat him alive. Culture is the hidden assumptions about the way things are. Diagnosis is hard - how can churches know their health when they are scared to know their health? Why should church leaders embrace church diagnostics and health checks? Revitalization is largely good old pastoring. Preach, pray, love, stay. Help the congregation find the joy of the Lord again, and great things will happen. How to move forward into revitalization when there is NOT unanimity. Building trust and gaining trust before big changes are crucial for pastors and leaders. It's not one single issue that leads to decline in churches, it's multiple things. There are older people in church replants that might start out a little bit sour, but if you befriend them, love them and pastor them well, they may turn into fruitful DOTTIES - (listen to Bob's story at the end of this episode) What are some neglected essentials to church revitalization? Are there backward corners of Heaven? Is soda racism allowable? How Pastor Christopher's soda prejudice has led to stomach and indigestion problems. The aftertaste is a little discouraging…