The document discusses several key issues facing churches: 1. Population growth in the US far outpaces growth in church attendance, with over 90 million more people living in the US than 16 years ago but church attendance remaining the same. 2. Churches struggle after age 40 due to becoming less flexible and slow to change, while new churches have very high closure rates. 3. Cultural changes like moving from a Christian to post-Christian society, modern to post-modern worldviews, and monoethnic to multiethnic populations present challenges for churches to remain relevant. 4. New approaches are needed to read cultural changes and engage with people in a post-modern, electronic media-driven age

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2. Research based on a national database of over 200,000 churches reveals that the overall population growth rate far outpaces the church’s rate of growth. Part 1 – Church Growth Statistics

3. Population growth in the U.S. - 52,000,000 Church attendance virtually the same - 52,000,000 92,000,000 people live here that did not 16 years ago

18. Part 3 – Ways to Read Those Changes From cell phones to mp3 players to the internet, no previous age has seen such profound change manifested so quickly. But these thrilling, dizzying transformations are forcing the church to decide where it fits in all this progress.

24. Part 3 – Ways to Read Those Changes The Girl is Sad

25. Part 3 – Ways to Read Those Changes

27. Church 2.0 Need for Community Create Framework for User Contribution

30. Part 4 – Marketing Overview

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