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Table of Contents

Help! Our Church is Growing

by Mark Phillips

Acknowledgements

Introduction

I. Discovering You Have an Adolescent Church

Lights, Locks, and Other Mysteries

Caught in the Middle

Growing Pains

Adolescence

Crisis Sunday

Questions without Answers

II. Answers and Questions for the Adolescent Church

Logistics

Leadership Skills

Programs and Policies

Tradition

Fear of Growth

Fellowship and Friendliness

Communication

The Resource Gap

A Grab Bag of Problems

The End and the Beginning

III. Preventative Medicine for the Adolescent Church

The Thoughts of the Heart

The Words of the Mouth

The Focus of a Ministry

The Tools of Ministry

The Spiritual Life of a Spiritual Leader

Epilogue: The Real Secret of Church Growth