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Re: Mark Segraves
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Originally Posted by n david
Right. It'll be interesting to see how they're doing in 5 years. These kind of churches are a dime a dozen around this area and many don't last long.
LifeChurch.tv (HQ'd in OK) tried starting a couple churches here years ago. They moved over 100 people here (50 paid staff members for each site). Both churches closed within a year or two.
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There are a lot of factors that are involved in the success or failure of a new church. That includes the leadership, community, strategy,etc.
In our town there is a daughter work of a mega church in Nashville that for the last five years seems to be either in a holding pattern or shrinking. When I visited about five years ago they ran around 150 people in a rented building and the church was five or ten years old then I think. I noticed a couple of years ago that they are now having service in a school so they don't even have a dedicated building. So even with the support of that large mega church they are not really succeeding while our church started six years ago with a handful of people and no money and now has about 1500 people each weekend over four services. When our pastor started this church he was working two jobs. That makes him appreciate everything God has done but it doesn't mean God can't do it another way with a pastor not in a financial bind! I am sure my pastor would have loved financial support starting out.
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"Although Entire Sanctification was preached at the beginning of the Movement, it was from a Wesleyan viewpoint, and had in it very little of the later Holiness Movement characteristics. Nothing was ever said about apparel, for everyone was so taken up with the Lord that mode of dress seemingly never occurred to any of us."
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