Learning from Willow Creek’s Mistake

1 November 2007 in Church Growth, Discipleship, Editorials, USA
Tags: Church Growth, Discipleship, programs, willow creek community church

Squaring the Angle
WGN COMMENTARY
by J. Randal Matheny

Stories, both on religious and secular sites, are highlighting a self-study by the Willow Creek Community Church, led by Bill Hybels, in which they discover that programs do not promote discipleship.
The research discovered that “[i]ncreasing levels of participation in these sets of activities does NOT predict whether [...]