
Revitalizing the Declining Church
From Death's Door to Community Growth
Desmond Barrett(Author)
Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published on 8. April 2021
100 pages
978-1-7252-7953-7 (ISBN)
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Standing in the small foyer of his first ministry assignment, Desmond Barrett prayed, "Lord send us someone new." Each week the same eight to thirteen people walked into that tiny church, sat in the same pew, and spoke to the same handful of people content in where they found themselves. As the pastor Barrett questioned, doubted, and cried to himself, praying that God would turn around this church that was at death's door. Death had not come to this once vibrant church overnight, but gradually as it seemed to have snuck up on them through deaths, families moving away, and a series of pastors over twenty years.
A new young pastoral family with children was not going to change the trajectory of the church without the church willing to transform. The church was dying, but was it willing to do what it would take to grow again? This story has been played out countless times over the years. If you are a pastor of a dying and struggling church searching for hope, then this resource is for you. It consists of ten stories of churches who faced death and lived to tell the story.
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Eugene
United States
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978-1-7252-7953-7 (9781725279537)
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Desmond Barrett is the lead pastor at Summit Church of the Nazarene in Ashland, Kentucky, where he is married to his wife Julie and has four children. He is the author of Revitalizing the Declining Church: From Deaths Door to Community Growth (2021), and Addition through Subtraction: Revitalizing the Established Church (2022). He is a host of the Revitalizing the Declining Church with Dr. Desmond Barrett podcast, has done extensive research in church revitalization, and serves as church revitalizer, consultant, coach, and mentor to revitalizing pastors and churches.
He is a graduate of Nazarene Bible College (bachelor's degree in ministry), and Trevecca Nazarene University (master's degree in organizational leadership, and a doctorate in education in leadership and professional practice).
Podcast: Revitalizing the Declining Church with Dr. Desmond Barrett
He is a graduate of Nazarene Bible College (bachelor's degree in ministry), and Trevecca Nazarene University (master's degree in organizational leadership, and a doctorate in education in leadership and professional practice).
Podcast: Revitalizing the Declining Church with Dr. Desmond Barrett
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