Decline & Renewal, 20: Ron Clark Guest Column
Editor's note: Here’s the first guest column on church renewal. In the coming weeks, you'll read insightful articles from great thinkers and pioneer church leaders like Mark Love, Jeff Childers, Mike Cope, Chris Flanders, Jarrod Robinson and more. The first article on renewal is from Ron Clark, a native of the Midwest who moved to the Pacific Northwest almost 20 years ago. Ron came to the conclusion that the best way to bring about church renewal was to relinquish his career as a minister and plant a church under the coaching of Kairos Church Planting. He now leads the Agape Church of Christ in Portland, Oregon, a church he planted six years ago with his wife Lori. Ron has been deeply engaged in the greater Portland community for years, and he has accumulated great wisdom about the kind of church renewal needed to meet the difficult needs of the West Coast. The View from Ron Clark “Have you thought about church planting?” Dr. Stan Granberg asked as we sat at Starbuc...