Preaching Stewardship to Encourage Growth in Missional Outreach in a Small Urban Church

Jeryl Salmond

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Preaching Stewardship to Encourage Growth in Missional Outreach in a Small Urban Church

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Jeryl Salmond. Preaching Stewardship to Encourage Growth In Missional Outreach In a Small Urban Church. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/72491c9e-13c7-47fe-bef3-fce4c84358bc.

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J. Salmond. Preaching Stewardship to Encourage Growth in Missional Outreach in a Small Urban Church. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/72491c9e-13c7-47fe-bef3-fce4c84358bc

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Jeryl Salmond. Preaching Stewardship to Encourage Growth In Missional Outreach In a Small Urban Church. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/72491c9e-13c7-47fe-bef3-fce4c84358bc.

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Jeryl Salmond

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Abstract

Like so many other congregations, small churches are suffering from declining membership, and many have closed their doors. This decline has caused many pastors to be concerned about their ability to survive. As a consequence, churches have focused on survival tactics which result in an inward focused church in order to safeguard their limited resources. This inward focus minimizes missional ministry and ignores the pain and brokenness of people in the community that surrounds the church. This issue is particularly impactful in the urban context, where social challenges are prevalent and evidenced by the visible amount of homelessness, hunger, and poverty in the community. This thesis investigates the utilization of preaching stewardship to encourage growth in missional outreach in a small urban church. The preacher must be intentional about developing and delivering sermons that demonstrate the symmetry between stewardship and outreach ministry. This project focused on a small urban church and seeks to demonstrate that preaching stewardship is influential in encouraging growth in missional outreach to offset the needs of the community beyond the church.

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