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Article: The purpose driven process: a church asks some hard questions and unearths some uncomfortable answers.(summer book club)
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- Presbyterian Record
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- July 1, 2006
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The Purpose Driven Church The Purpose Driven Life Rick Warren Zondervan
For months we had discussion times after the morning worship service and half the congregation remained, old and young, those new to the church and those who had attended all their lives. During the course of study of these books, the churches of Zion Willowdale and St. Andrew's, Valley Center, Alta., amalgamated, changed their name to Willow-Valley, wrote a mission statement and discussed a future building. Not bad! But it wasn't easy. With Warren's books as guides, we had to re-examine all our assumptions. Three areas were challenging to us.
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