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When Growth Eats Itself

August 31st, 2023 | 18 min read

By John Eger

The modern American church reads numbers like fate.  We have become deterministic around what these numbers communicate, as if they made promises that reflect the pattern of tea leaves found at the bottom of a mug. The assumption has been that numbers will tell us everything there is to know about American Christianity.  This is the myth the church has believed, and we have hung onto our cultural promise that there is no such thing as too much.

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