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"This post is from the defunct blog “Dying Church”\n\nThe past few weeks, I&#x27;ve been thinking about dying churches. I&#x27;ve read about every type of church – the purpose-driven church, the turnaround church, the naturally developed church, and so on. What I haven&#x27;t read about is the dying church. Jesus talked about the need for us to die to ourselves, to take up our cross daily and die to ourselves, and that if we wanted to save our lives we&#x27;d lose it, but if we willingly died to ourselves we&#x27;d really "
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