Decline & Renewal, 16: Stan Granberg Guest Column
Editor’s note: Here’s another in our series of guest columns on church decline. Coming articles will focus on renewal. Our eleventh guest column (on this issue) is from Stan Granberg, the founder and director of Kairos Church Planting Ministries . Stan grew up in the Pacific Northwest. After years as a church-planter in Kenya and as a teacher in the southern US, he returned to the Northwest to find a changing landscape among Churches of Christ. In the article below, Stan describes the impact this has made on his work for the Kingdom. The View from Stan Granberg I grew up in the Seattle/Tacoma area. During the 1970s and 1980s our fellowship of Churches of Christ had a dynamic feel to it. Our camps were full. Youth events were frequent and dynamic. The Great Northwest Evangelism Workshop was drawing 2,000 or so participants. We had no megachurches but the incoming people outnumbered the outgoing and our church life seemed good. When I returned to Portland, Oregon to...