Breaking Out of Maintenance
Our Illinois Great Rivers Conference is asking every church to participate in a process that helps us get "Unstuck" as a church. In the past 20 years, the majority of churches in every mainline protestant denomination has faced precipitous decline. This has happened for many reasons. Church members don't share the Good News of Jesus with members of the community, and only rarely invite people to their church. Pastors are ineffective as preachers and their sermons and lead