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		<title>A Garden for Shelter: One Use of New Church Higher Education</title>
		<description><![CDATA[As a New Church community with an elementary school, the Pittsburgh New Church depend on the Academy of the New Church to provide us with well-trained teachers as well as some opportunities for continuing to develop as excellent New Church teachers. A New Church elementary school depends on its teachers (as well as on parents [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Ideas from &#8220;Growth by Purification&#8221; (sermon from 1916)</title>
		<description><![CDATA[I came across this sermon from 1916 when reading for my own sermon in Matthew 3:8. I wasn’t looking for church growth material, but I found many of the ideas very interesting. The whole sermon is posted for your perusal, but I’ve pulled out and commented on several of my favorite quotes. I wish there [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church Health and the Bottom Line: Another Perspective from Rev. Eric Carswell</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Eric offered and I welcomed an opportunity to present an alternative point of view on church health and the bottom line. Dialog is my real goal in presenting my thoughts on the subject and so I offer-with his permission&#8211;Eric&#8217;s article appearing in the December issue of the Pittsburgh New Church Reporter. ~Amos


Church Health and the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>My Letter to the Congregation</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is the complete text of the letter I sent to the members and friends of the Pittsburgh New Church informing them of my decision to leave my role as a pastor in the General Church. 

November 6, 2009
Dear Friends:
It is with mixed emotions that I have decided to retire from my role as [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church Health and the Bottom Line: Part 3</title>
		<description><![CDATA[In part one of this series, we clarified the dilemma church communities apparently face—adopt a measurable and natural bottom-line or face extinction—and saw how many church leaders and marketers embrace the business model without thinking too much about it.
In part two, we saw that this choice was not always so automatic. The origins of the [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Church Health and the Bottom Line: Part 2</title>
		<description><![CDATA[When is it acceptable for a church community to replace its spiritual goals with natural goals?
While thinking in Part 1 about the difficult choice between measurable (natural) and unmeasurable (spiritual) goals, we saw how church marketers and leaders are adopting the business model of the measurable (natural) bottom line without a second thought.
This decision wasn&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://www.amosglenn.com/church-health-and-the-bottom-line-part-2-13.htm</link>
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		<title>Church Health and the Bottom Line Part 1</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Church communities and other non-profit organizations have much to learn from successful businesses. While non-profits have been wandering through the world trusting in their own dedication and in the goodness of the cause, businesses have been exploring and charting, trusting mainly in data and proven principles. Non-profits relegate themselves to mere wandering when they don&#8217;t [...]]]></description>
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