Topic: Engel's Strategy Classic
[Last Post] Engel’s Strategy Classic: Restoring the Missing Cutting Blades
By Chris Forbes | February 15, 2008
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And now the exciting conclusion to the 1975 classic “WHAT’S GONE WRONG WITH THE HARVEST” by James Engel
Restoring the Missing Cutting Blades
We began with the question, “What’s gone wrong with the harvest?” The problem clearly does not lie in a total lack of harvest equipment, because there is an abundance ...
Engel’s Strategy Classic: A Lifestyle of Obedience
By Chris Forbes | February 14, 2008
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From the 1975 classic “WHAT’S GONE WRONG WITH THE HARVEST” by James Engel
A Lifestyle of Obedience
The biblical Church has no benches on the sidelines of its playing field. The believer does not really have the option of moving to the sidelines in disobedience. John says, “By this we know that ...
Engel’s Strategy Classic: The Church: Resistance or Renaissance?
By Chris Forbes | February 13, 2008
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From the 1975 classic “WHAT’S GONE WRONG WITH THE HARVEST” by James Engel
The Church: Resistance or Renaissance?
If one were to stop at a gas station in Rollingwood and ask directions to First Church, the attendant no doubt would answer by giving the address of the church building. This is the ...
Engel’s Strategy Classic: The Adaptive Strategy and the Local Church
By Chris Forbes | February 12, 2008
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From the 1975 classic “WHAT’S GONE WRONG WITH THE HARVEST” by James Engel
The Adaptive Strategy and the Local Church
We have now explored the implications of the Great Corn-mission in a twentieth-century world and have seen that a successful ministry of proclamation, persuasion, and cultivation requires careful spirit-led analysis, planning, strategy, ...
Engel’s Strategy Classic: Using Media to Cultivate Ministry
By Chris Forbes | February 11, 2008
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From the 1975 classic “WHAT’S GONE WRONG WITH THE HARVEST” by James Engel
The Media
A variety of media is useful in the cultivation of the believer. But once again we must stress that the generalizations presented here are simply that — generalizations. There can be some real differences between segments within ...
Engel’s Strategy Classic: The Publisher and the Broadcaster
By Chris Forbes | February 9, 2008
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From the 1975 classic “WHAT’S GONE WRONG WITH THE HARVEST” by James Engel
The Publisher and the Broadcaster
Now, looking beyond the local church for a moment, we have undertaken a number of surveys at the Wheaton Graduate School for Christian magazines and radio stations. Often the data are unmistakably clear — ...
Engel’s Strategy Classic: The Spiritual Lifestyle Survey
By Chris Forbes | February 8, 2008
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From the 1975 classic “WHAT’S GONE WRONG WITH THE HARVEST” by James Engel
The Survey
Probably the only way to get behind the masks in such circumstances is to use some type of survey. There is no magic in the survey instrument per se. It is only a tool that is proving ...
