J.D. Greear
Articles by J.D. Greear:Five Factors that Brought Life to a Dying Church
By J.D. Greear
The church I pastor, the Summit Church, was planted in 1962. In 2001, however, the Summit Church (then Homestead Heights Baptist Church) was a plateaued, declining Baptist church. The current pastor had been asked to resign after being caught in immorality. The pastor prior to him had unsuccessfully attempted to impose a Willow Creek model, and the pastor prior to him was a theological moderate. When I arrived, the church was in its fourth straight year of attendance and offering decline, and the outlook was bleak.
FIVE LIFE-GIVING FACTORS
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Book Review: Radical Together
Reviewed by J.D. Greear
I think it would be really difficult to write a follow-up to a best-selling book, but I think David Platt has done about as good a job as can be done in his new Radical Together (hereafter, RT). RT reflects both a continuation and a maturation of the thoughts introduced in Radical. RT reinforces the prophetic call issued in Radical and applies it in new ways as Platt fleshes out what it looks like to lead a congregation day-in and day-out in radical response to the gospel.
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A Pastor Defends His Multi-Site Church
By J.D. Greear
In 2005 our congregation moved to a multi-site strategy for spatial necessity. God was graciously bringing to our doors more people than we could handle. We were doing as many morning services as we could in our rented school facility, and were having to turn people away. So we opened another campus 3 miles down the road, where I preached between our other services at the main campus.
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