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Oct88 PRECONDITIONS FOR CHURCH GROWTH I am increasingly convinced that the two indispensible preconditions to vigorous, sustained church growth are a pastor who wants the church to grow and a congregation of people who want the church to grow — and both are willing to pay the price. What is the price? One price the pastor must pay is a willingness to assume a strong leadership role. One price the people must pay is a willingness to follow growth leadership . . . Thus, the pastor’s major role for growth is to lead. The congregation’s major role is to minister. Although maintaining the proper relationship between the two will not solve every growth problem for every church, it will help unlock tremendous opportunities for growth in many churches now bogged down in unweildy pastor-congretation relationships. C. Peter Wagner, “Traits of An Attractive Church,” in The Magnetic Fellowship, ed. Larry Weeden (The Leadership Library, Word, Waco, TX, 1988), pages 16, 17, 28.
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