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Healthy church growth among mainline churches in the Bible Belt: a study of growing congregations in the Southern Conference of the United Church of Christ 1996-2001
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Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/abbe7479-369f-48da-9007-a58a6bd5836c?q=1996. Healthy Church Growth Among Mainline Churches In the Bible Belt: a Study of Growing Congregations In the Southern Conference of the United Church of Christ 1996-2001.APA citation style (7th ed.)
Healthy church growth among mainline churches in the Bible Belt: a study of growing congregations in the Southern Conference of the United Church of Christ 1996-2001. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/abbe7479-369f-48da-9007-a58a6bd5836c?q=1996Chicago citation style (CMOS 17, author-date)
Healthy Church Growth Among Mainline Churches In the Bible Belt: a Study of Growing Congregations In the Southern Conference of the United Church of Christ 1996-2001. Gordon-Conwell Theological Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/abbe7479-369f-48da-9007-a58a6bd5836c?q=1996.Note: These citations are programmatically generated and may be incomplete.
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- The thesis of this project is that church growth usually results from a definable and mesurable set of primary factors. These factors transcend qualifying marks of congregations such as race, geography, size, age, and theological distinctives. This project employed factor analysis to compare the independent variable of membership growth with the dependent variable of factors presumed to indicate church growth and church health. The most significant factor difference between growing and declining churches was need-based programs. The research affirms the significance of strictness and meaning for growth. Conservative and liberal churches are more likely to grow rapidly than moderate churches.
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