Applying the process of genetic expression to church revitalization

Boyd Martin Evans

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Applying the process of genetic expression to church revitalization

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Boyd Martin Evans. Applying the Process of Genetic Expression to Church Revitalization. Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/e338362d-4835-4f4c-a003-c4140f4ef599.

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B. M. Evans. Applying the process of genetic expression to church revitalization. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/e338362d-4835-4f4c-a003-c4140f4ef599

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Boyd Martin Evans. Applying the Process of Genetic Expression to Church Revitalization. Golden Gate Baptist Theological Seminary. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/e338362d-4835-4f4c-a003-c4140f4ef599.

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Boyd Martin Evans

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Stagnation and decline can often be puzzling to many church leaders. Churches can have and do all the 'right things': congregational unity, biblically faithful worship and teaching, baptisms, large missions receipts, deep savings, community outreach programs, and denominational notoriety--and yet dontinue to experience numerical stagnation and even decline. This project discusses the local church as a living organism exploring the theory that every church is unique such that identifying and actively expressing its congregational DNA can lead to revitalization. In this study the responses to a series of congregational surveys, interviews, and inventories were 'interpreted' and used to identify a church's DNA. As a result the church identified and realized the difference between its actual and merely 'aspirational' core values, discovered the gifts and passions of its people, and developed and implemented an informed DNA-based revitalization strategy.

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