Article: How to Kill a Programmatic Church

At a recent denominational conference, I found myself at a round table with 12 other ministers. In typical introductory fashion we went around the table saying our name, title, church location — and as the first minister added unprompted — our congregation’s size. While the titles, locations and numbers began to fly, I got bored and allowed my mind to wander; turning to a colleague, we engaged an interesting question: “how can we kill the programmatic church?”

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