1) Church growth in the US is not keeping pace with population growth, with 52 million people now living in the country who were not there 16 years ago. 2) Churches over 40 years old tend to decline as they become less flexible and slow to change, while the fastest growing denominations are Evangelical, nondenominational, and no religion. 3) The document discusses three major cultural shifts from Christian to post-Christian, modern to post-modern, and monoethnic to multiethnic that have impacted church growth.

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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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