How to Grow Your Church (The Willow Creek Association Way)

A simple video message explaining the danger of the current church growth madness that's sweeping America, AKA The Willow Creek Association method. If you suspect your church is 'up the creek' go to willow creek association website and go to find a church and you see if your church is listed. That's how i found out about my former church. Also search the willow creek assoc or pastor.com website and see if "your pastor's message" is there( they download and share sermons). They usually use the latest TV Show(i.e. "Extreme" this or that, "Desperate Housewives") or current movie to "relate" to their audience. "..the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear." (2 Tim 4:3) I recommend reading John MacArthur's book: "Ashamed of the Gospel: When the Church Becomes like the World" and see if what he says is not true. My findings are not based on what others have told me about these movements. I was part of 2 seeker friendly churches and witnessed firsthand the problems. I've already read Warren's books the purpose driven church and purpose driven life and have read their teachings in the context.. We need Christians more than ever to be like the Bereans and search the scriptures! For further study, I also recommend listening to, or reading the text of the sermons titled "The Gospel of Accomodation", "Falling Away to the Anti-Christ, and "Beware of the Wisdom of Men" preached by David Wilkerson and Carter Conlon. Each of these is available online for free. Try Greg Gordon's sermon index website. www.sermonindex.net TAGS - Purpose Driven Life Church Bill Hybels Robert Schuler Pragmatism Pragmatic diaprax Seeker Sensitive Movement Church Growth Apostasy Joel Osteen Marketing Consumer Driven Surveys Hillsong Willow Creek Association Saddleback Paul Shepherd ALCF Abundant Life Christian Fellowship