Grco201.10e
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Did you read the required text assigned for this quiz?
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Yes, I read the required text assigned for this quiz.
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No I did not read the required text assigned for this quiz.
Correct Answer
A. Yes, I read the required text assigned for this quiz.Explanation
A lower quiz score will result from the failure to read the assigned lesson text.Rate this question:
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Please select three of the reasons attributed to church growth failure.
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Church growth failure is due to lack of vision and organization.
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Church growth failure is due to bad stewardship.
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Church growth failure is due to watering down the Word of God to please man.
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Church growth failure is due to the wrong kind of music.
Correct Answer(s)
A. Church growth failure is due to lack of vision and organization.
B. Church growth failure is due to bad stewardship.
C. Church growth failure is due to watering down the Word of God to please man.Explanation
Church growth failure is due to a lack of vision and organization. Along with this comes bad stewardship and a teaching of the Word that is pleasing only to the ideals of men.Rate this question:
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The meaning of “grow” is reaching people with the gospel of Jesus Christ. (True or False)
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True
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False
Correct Answer
A. TrueExplanation
Joe McKeever states that he knows more about getting smaller churches to grow than larger ones.
What he means by “grow” is reaching people with the gospel of Jesus Christ.Rate this question:
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A reason a church stays small is the statement "We don’t like our church just the way it is now." (True or False)
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True
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False
Correct Answer
B. FalseExplanation
"We like our church just the way it is now." While this attitude usually goes unspoken—it might not even be recognized by its carriers—it's widespread in many churches. The proof of it is seen in how the leaders and congregation reject new ideas and freeze out new people.Rate this question:
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Keep a church small with a rapid turnover of pastors. (True or False)
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True
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False
Correct Answer
A. TrueExplanation
A quick turnover of pastors will keep a church small. It takes at least a couple of years for a pastor to become the real deal for a church—a pastor in more than name only, one who has earned the right to lead the congregation. With larger churches, the time period is more like six years.Rate this question:
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Not trusting the leaders of administration will keep church growth small. (True or False)
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True
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False
Correct Answer
A. TrueExplanation
The determined-to-stay-small church is far more concerned about the dollars and cents in the offering plate than about the lost souls in the community.Rate this question:
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We have lots of money like the big churches in town, but we are too small," helps make the church grow. (True or False)
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True
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False
Correct Answer
B. FalseExplanation
Small churches often are stymied by inferiority complexes. "We can't do anything because we're small. We don't have lots of money like the big churches in town." So, they set small goals and ask little from their members.Rate this question:
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The church with no plan is doomed to stay small. (True or False)
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True
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False
Correct Answer
A. TrueExplanation
The church with no plan—that is, no specific direction for what they are trying to do and become—will content itself with plodding along, going through the motions of "all churches everywhere."Rate this question:
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Lousy fellowship will not affect the growth of the small church. (True or False)
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True
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False
Correct Answer
B. FalseExplanation
There are ways to tell if the fellowship in your church is unhealthy: Visitors are basically ignored, even resented in some areas. No one follows up with visitors to let them know they are wanted or to give information on the church.Rate this question:
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A state of neglect permeates the church helping to make the church grow. (True or False)
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True
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False
Correct Answer
B. FalseExplanation
Not always, but often, a dying church shows signs of its weakening condition by the disrepair of its buildings and the neglect of its appearance. The interior walls haven't been painted in years and bear the collective fingerprints of a generation of children.Rate this question:
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No prayer will cause a church with no vision to remain small. (True or False)
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True
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False
Correct Answer
A. TrueExplanation
(Luke 18:1) And he spake a parable unto them to this end, that men ought always to pray, and not to faint. Pray or quit. Those seem to be the alternatives.Rate this question:
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