Interview 116: Built to Grow: Understanding and Advancing the Mission of the Church

Podcast: the Proclaim & Defend Podcast · the Proclaim & Defend Podcast

Opublikowano: 2026-07-18

With this podcast we introduce the July/August edition of FrontLine magazine. The associate editor for this edition was Mark Herbster. The theme was Built to Grow: Understanding and Advancing the Mission of the Church — the point of this podcast is to explain what Mark and the authors were after in fleshing out the theme. To summarize though, there are two extremes in looking at church growth. There is the extreme of going after numerical growth almost at any cost. In reaction to that is the extreme of disdaining growth and becoming too inward focused. Ou...