Rekindling the Mainline: New Life Through New Churches

Not only do new church starts in significant numbers bring systemic change and renewal to mainline denominations, but new church development brings similar change to individual aging congregations in their vicinity. Author Stephen Compton argues that a decline in new church starts in the last half of the 20th century was the major contributor to the decline of mainline church groups-not liberalism or lack of faith, as is often cited. He shows in this book how introducing considerable number...