Pursuing church growth destroys Social Capital. Pursuing churchgoer and community growth enhances it. Seeking the welfare of a church, its
The Open Table defines Relational Capital as “a sustained, reciprocal, social connectedness between people in which each party gives to
Despite countless references to dying to self in Scripture and biblical role models for the power of dying to self,
Dying to self is overrepresented in Scripture yet underpublicized, misunderstood, and unpopular in America today – Christianity’s Best Kept Secret.
Churches that haven’t “died to self” don’t talk about it. You can’t give away what you never had. Despite all
