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Dear Church Growth Gurus: You Were Wrong

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Remember how wave after wave of whiz kid marketing programs swept through, offering one silver bullet church growth ‘innovation’ after another?

We saw Madison Avenue-style marketing strategies, fancy outreach buzzwords, and seeker-sensitive approaches. Every time you’d turn around, there’s a new trend sweeping the church ‘by storm’.

But in the end, none of these things were the solution needed. There was an obvious one staring us in the face the whole time. It happened to be the same one that so many successful churches never abandoned in the first place.

It was never the bells and whistles on which Christ built His church. It was always the fundamentals.

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While you’re at it, here’s his latest book:

Psalms of War: Prayers That Literally Kick Ass is a collection, from the book of Psalms, regarding how David rolled in prayer. I bet you haven’t heard these read, prayed, or sung in church against our formidable enemies — and therein lies the Church’s problem. We’re not using the spiritual weapons God gave us to waylay the powers of darkness. It might be time to dust them off and offer ‘em up if you’re truly concerned about the state of Christ’s Church and of our nation.

Also included in this book, Psalms of War, are reproductions of the author’s original art from his Biblical Badass Series of oil paintings.

This is a great gift for the prayer warriors. Real. Raw. Relevant.

Doug Giles

Doug Giles is Pastor of Liberty Fellowship in Wimberley, TX, and is the founder of ClashDaily.com (290M+ page views). Giles is also the author of the NEW book, The Wildman Devotional: A 50 Day Devotional For Men. Follow Doug on Instagram and Truth Social at @thegilesway and on Twitter @TheArtOfDoug.

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