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><channel><title>World and Church Trends and Bible Prophecy &#187; church growth</title> <atom:link href="http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/tag/church-growth/feed/" rel="self" type="application/rss+xml" /><link>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress</link> <description>Don Koenig gives his wordviews on world and Church issues that often relate to Bible prophecy</description> <lastBuildDate>Sat, 31 Jul 2010 21:42:29 +0000</lastBuildDate> <language>en</language> <sy:updatePeriod>hourly</sy:updatePeriod> <sy:updateFrequency>1</sy:updateFrequency> <generator>http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1</generator> <xhtml:meta xmlns:xhtml="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" name="robots" content="noindex" /> <item><title>Postmodern Evangelicals guilty of spiritual malpractice</title><link>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/09/09/postmodern-evangelicals-guilty-of-spiritual-malpractice.html</link> <comments>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/09/09/postmodern-evangelicals-guilty-of-spiritual-malpractice.html#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 10 Sep 2008 02:14:03 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Don</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Emerging/Emergent Church]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Post Modern]]></category> <category><![CDATA[aberrant/heretical teaching]]></category> <category><![CDATA[church movements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dangers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[discernment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[church growth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[emergent]]></category> <category><![CDATA[postmodern]]></category> <category><![CDATA[purpose driven]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rick Warren]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seeker sensitive]]></category> <category><![CDATA[trends]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/09/09/postmodern-evangelicals-guiity-of-spiritual-malpractice.html</guid> <description><![CDATA[What would you think if you went to a physician and he purposely make things up as he went along in regards to your medical treatment? He called himself a Board Certified Purpose Driven specialist. Whatever he think works is the best treatment. What if you took a formal English course because it was a [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/09/09/postmodern-evangelicals-guilty-of-spiritual-malpractice.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Evangelicals are fleeing Sunday attendance!</title><link>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/09/04/evangelicals-are-fleeing-sunday-attendance.html</link> <comments>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/09/04/evangelicals-are-fleeing-sunday-attendance.html#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:02:56 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Don</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Emerging/Emergent Church]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Post Modern]]></category> <category><![CDATA[church movements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[discernment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[church growth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[emergent]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[postmodern]]></category> <category><![CDATA[purpose driven]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seeker movement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seeker sensitive]]></category> <category><![CDATA[trends]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/09/04/evangelicals-are-fleeing-sunday-attendance.html</guid> <description><![CDATA[According to Julia Duin evangelicals are fleeing their churches and not attending on Sunday. There are probably several things going on here besides Duin not counting some non denominational churches that are growing. Has anyone considered that maybe half of the people in the seeker friendly churches that are now so prominent across America were [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/09/04/evangelicals-are-fleeing-sunday-attendance.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>3</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>The fall of Christianity in America</title><link>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/06/07/the-fall-of-christianity-in-america.html</link> <comments>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/06/07/the-fall-of-christianity-in-america.html#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sat, 07 Jun 2008 19:00:13 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Don</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Apostasy]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Big Brother]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Christian haters]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Post Modern]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Church]]></category> <category><![CDATA[church growth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[good and evil]]></category> <category><![CDATA[postmodern]]></category> <category><![CDATA[puplic schools]]></category> <category><![CDATA[trends]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/06/07/the-fall-of-christianity-in-america.html</guid> <description><![CDATA[This article is a must read for all Christians. Are Christians going to allow the government to continue to indoctrinate their children and then wonder why none of them are coming to Christ? Over half the Southern Baptists churches have not baptized one youth because the gospel is not being taught to them in church [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/06/07/the-fall-of-christianity-in-america.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Rick Warren needs to preach the gospel of Christ clearly.</title><link>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/06/04/rick-warren-needs-to-preach-the-gospel-of-christ-clearly.html</link> <comments>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/06/04/rick-warren-needs-to-preach-the-gospel-of-christ-clearly.html#comments</comments> <pubDate>Wed, 04 Jun 2008 20:25:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Don</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[church movements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[discernment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[church growth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[purpose driven]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rick Warren]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seeker movement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seeker sensitive]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/06/04/rick-warren-needs-to-preach-the-gospel-of-christ-clearly.html</guid> <description><![CDATA[This article give some interesting insights. Rich Warren is apparently inviting certain critics to visit his purpose driven conferences probably in an attempt to tone down the criticism of him. He may also be genuinely trying to understand why he has critics in the Church (let&#8217;s hope so). Bob DeWaay was invited and he challenged [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/06/04/rick-warren-needs-to-preach-the-gospel-of-christ-clearly.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Lost Christians is the greatest crises in America? What is the response to such a bazaar concept!</title><link>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/05/11/lost-christians-is-the-greatest-crises-in-ameria-what-is-the-response-to-such-a-bazaar-unbiblical-concept.html</link> <comments>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/05/11/lost-christians-is-the-greatest-crises-in-ameria-what-is-the-response-to-such-a-bazaar-unbiblical-concept.html#comments</comments> <pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 13:21:16 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Don</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[The Church]]></category> <category><![CDATA[aberrant/heretical teaching]]></category> <category><![CDATA[discernment]]></category> <category><![CDATA[church growth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[social gospel]]></category> <category><![CDATA[trends]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/05/11/lost-christians-is-the-greatest-crises-in-ameria-what-is-the-response-to-such-a-bazaar-unbiblical-concept.html</guid> <description><![CDATA[What a totally bazaar concept &#8220;lost Christians&#8221;? This is an oxymoron!  If these &#8220;Christians&#8221; have lost their faith in the Bible, the church and Christian beliefs then they are not &#8220;lost Christians&#8221; they are not Christians! Thirty-one million people have left these churches because they were never believers they were just cultural Christians. It is [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/05/11/lost-christians-is-the-greatest-crises-in-ameria-what-is-the-response-to-such-a-bazaar-unbiblical-concept.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Entertained to death but still dead</title><link>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/03/13/entertained-yet-still-dead.html</link> <comments>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/03/13/entertained-yet-still-dead.html#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:13:23 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Don</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Emerging/Emergent Church]]></category> <category><![CDATA[aberrant/heretical teaching]]></category> <category><![CDATA[church movements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[church growth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[movements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Rick Warren]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seeker movement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seeker sensitive]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/03/13/entertained-yet-still-dead.html</guid> <description><![CDATA[This news letter properly discerns the seeker movement. clipped from www.ericbarger.com Many churches are counting on the entertainment factor to carry them because they are in fact void of spiritual depth and power. No matter how well executed or presented, &#8220;special effects&#8221;, trite skits or &#8220;positive&#8221; sermonettes are just so much drivel without the supernatural [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/03/13/entertained-yet-still-dead.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Global socialism will lead to fascism and the Beast Antichrist</title><link>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/02/28/global-socialism-will-leads-to-fascism-and-the-beast-antichrist.html</link> <comments>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/02/28/global-socialism-will-leads-to-fascism-and-the-beast-antichrist.html#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 28 Feb 2008 19:32:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Don</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Global government/Beast government]]></category> <category><![CDATA[dangers]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Antichrist]]></category> <category><![CDATA[Beast]]></category> <category><![CDATA[China]]></category> <category><![CDATA[church growth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[fascist]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/02/28/global-socialism-will-leads-to-fascism-and-the-beast-antichrist.html</guid> <description><![CDATA[This is a really great article on socialism and fascism it should help you to understand it better, why it will fail and why it always end up in dictatorship. Then he begs the question, if the world is going socialist what will the global dictatorship it will evolve into look like? The answer of [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/02/28/global-socialism-will-leads-to-fascism-and-the-beast-antichrist.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Total Christianity confronts truncated spirituality</title><link>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/01/24/total-christianity-confronts-truncated-spirituality.html</link> <comments>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/01/24/total-christianity-confronts-truncated-spirituality.html#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 24 Jan 2008 19:09:28 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Don</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[Post Modern]]></category> <category><![CDATA[The Church]]></category> <category><![CDATA[church movements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[church growth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[postmodern]]></category> <category><![CDATA[purpose driven]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seeker movement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seeker sensitive]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/01/24/total-christianity-confronts-truncated-spirituality.html</guid> <description><![CDATA[I think this excellent article hits the nail on the head. The mega church movement makes too many godless compromises that focus on the felt needs of the people. They should be putting the focus on Christ. For without a spiritual rebirth from Jesus man can do nothing for God in this world. They think [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2008/01/24/total-christianity-confronts-truncated-spirituality.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Are Those That Oppose The Purpose Driven Agenda Leaders From Hell?</title><link>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2007/12/27/are-those-that-oppose-the-purpose-driven-agenda-leaders-from-hell.html</link> <comments>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2007/12/27/are-those-that-oppose-the-purpose-driven-agenda-leaders-from-hell.html#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 27 Dec 2007 20:48:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Don</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[aberrant/heretical teaching]]></category> <category><![CDATA[church movements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[church growth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[purpose driven]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/?p=691</guid> <description><![CDATA[The purpose driven leaders are teaching pastors to demonize Christian leaders that are against their purpose driven program. All that is documented in the link below. Are Those That Oppose The Purpose Driven Agenda Leaders From Hell? &#8211; CWN: &#8220;Think carefully about what is being said in that statement. Southerland is encouraging pastors to think [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2007/12/27/are-those-that-oppose-the-purpose-driven-agenda-leaders-from-hell.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>2</slash:comments> </item> <item><title>Seeker Friendly Church Leader Admits They Have Done It All Wrong &#8211; CWN</title><link>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2007/11/01/seeker-friendly-church-leader-admits-they-have-done-it-all-wrong-cwn.html</link> <comments>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2007/11/01/seeker-friendly-church-leader-admits-they-have-done-it-all-wrong-cwn.html#comments</comments> <pubDate>Thu, 01 Nov 2007 00:18:00 +0000</pubDate> <dc:creator>Don</dc:creator> <category><![CDATA[church movements]]></category> <category><![CDATA[church growth]]></category> <category><![CDATA[revelation]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seeker movement]]></category> <category><![CDATA[seeker sensitive]]></category><guid
isPermaLink="false">http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/?p=599</guid> <description><![CDATA[Seeker Friendly Church Leader Admits They Have Done It All Wrong &#8211; CWN: &#8220;If you simply want a crowd, the “seeker sensitive” model produces results. If you want solid, sincere, mature followers of Christ, it’s a bust. In a shocking confession, Hybels states: We made a mistake. What we should have done when people crossed [...]]]></description> <wfw:commentRss>http://www.thepropheticyears.com/wordpress/2007/11/01/seeker-friendly-church-leader-admits-they-have-done-it-all-wrong-cwn.html/feed/</wfw:commentRss> <slash:comments>0</slash:comments> </item> </channel> </rss>
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