L P has left a new comment on your post "WELS DP Version of Matthew 18: "Talk To Me First, ...":
Church Growth is nothing more but the use of sociological techniques to grow an organization. This comes from the idea that the church can be studied as a social phenomenon and based on this idea, one can conjure techniques to gather a crowd.
It is wicked because it boils down to mass manipulation.
LPC
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GJ - LP, I attended a CG presentation where the leader kept saying, "Do this and you will have happy campers."
Ski would call that a "takeaway."
The CG leaders have said that congregational activity should be planned solely to keep members involved and happy. They need to be involved. It is all about felt needs, or, addressing the Old Adam to keep the Old Adam unconverted.
