Gaining By Losing: Why the Future Belongs to Churches that Send
The evangelical church is recognizing the need to reach out to their neighbors and the world abroad. In Gaining By Losing, J.D. Greear unpacks ten kingdom principles that you can use to reorient your church’s priorities around God’s mission to reach a lost world.
People are leaving the megachurch J.D. Greear pastors. Big givers. Key volunteers. Some of his best leaders and friends. And thats exactly how he wants it to be.
Though many churches focus time and energy on attracting people and counting numbers, the real mission of the church, Greear says, isnt how many people you can gather. Its about training up disciples and then sending them out. The true measure of success for a church should be its sending capacity, not its seating capacity.
But there is a cost to this. To see ministry multiply, pastors and church leaders must sacrifice large audiences, instead encouraging and empowering people to serve, not inside the church, but out in the world.
In Gaining By Losing, J.D. Greear unpacks eight kingdom principles pastors can use to reorient their churchs priorities. Ultimately, they dont need to choose between gathering or sending their members. Effective churches can, and must, do both.
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The evangelical church is recognizing the need to reach out to their neighbors and the world abroad. In Gaining By Losing, J.D. Greear unpacks ten kingdom principles that you can use to reorient your church’s priorities around God’s mission to reach a lost world.
People are leaving the megachurch J.D. Greear pastors. Big givers. Key volunteers. Some of his best leaders and friends. And thats exactly how he wants it to be.
Though many churches focus time and energy on attracting people and counting numbers, the real mission of the church, Greear says, isnt how many people you can gather. Its about training up disciples and then sending them out. The true measure of success for a church should be its sending capacity, not its seating capacity.
But there is a cost to this. To see ministry multiply, pastors and church leaders must sacrifice large audiences, instead encouraging and empowering people to serve, not inside the church, but out in the world.
In Gaining By Losing, J.D. Greear unpacks eight kingdom principles pastors can use to reorient their churchs priorities. Ultimately, they dont need to choose between gathering or sending their members. Effective churches can, and must, do both.
