From Embers to a Flame: How God Can Revitalize Your Church

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The need for church revitalization -- Church-planting or church revitalization? -- The biblical paradigm for revitalization -- Church health, not church growth -- Revitalization strategy 1: connect to the past -- Learning from the past without living in the past -- Revitalization strategy 2: a call to repentance -- Cover up or 'fess up -- Revitalization strategy 3: gospel-driven and Christ-centered ministry -- The first of the first things -- Revitalization strategy 4: personal gospel formation -- The discipline of grace -- Revitalization strategy 5: the priority of intercessory prayer -- The ministry of prayer -- Revitalization strategy 6: the primacy of preaching -- The ministry of the Word -- Revitalization strategy 7: staying on mission with a vision -- Simplicity and focus in a day of complexity and chaos -- Revitalization strategy 8: servant leadership multiplication -- An effective yet most neglected strategy for church vitality -- Revitalization strategy 9: small-group discipleship -- The biblical delivery system for effective discipleship -- Revitalization strategy 10: a great commitment to the great commission -- The W.E.L.L. church -- Where do we go from here?