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Article: Spiritual growth found stunted
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- Daily Breeze
- Article date:
- January 5, 2008
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Willow Creek Community Church, the suburban Chicago megachurch
that has become a model for some of the nation's largest churches,
started more than a quarter-century ago by asking the question: Why
don't people go to church.?
Now, church leaders are looking for new ways to keep them there
after new research revealed that worshipers'worshippers' spiritual
growth did not keep pace with their involvement in church
activities.
The findings, based on research at Willow Creek and similar
churches, showed that involvement in church activities did not carry
with it a boost in spiritual growth, defined as "increasing love for
God and others."
The findings were not only enlightening for Willow Creek ...