Posts Tagged ‘retention’

  • MenAsleep

    In Praise of Short Sermons

    August 26th, 2009 | Church culture, How we're off the mark, Teaching in the church | David Murrow | 30 Comments

    As I travel the country, nothing I say creates more controversy than this: men would benefit from shorter, simpler sermons. In my Go for the Guys Sunday Action Plan, I advocate a one-point sermon, ten minutes in length, built around an object lesson.

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    Boyz to Men

    June 3rd, 2005 | Boys | David Murrow | 1 Comment

    The church loses almost all of its young men after high school. Research indicates that more than 70 percent of the boys who are raised in church abandon it during their teens and twenties. Dan Schaeffer told me the sad tale of his son’s nine best Christian buddies. All were pillars in the youth group, [...]

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