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FOCUS: The Top Ten Things People Want and Need from You and Your Church

Businesses focus on giving people what they want. "The customer is always right" is their motto. But we're church leaders, not business executives. And our mission is to make fully devoted followers of Christ, not just to give people what they want.

Sorting out wants from needs is messy business. One group wants different music. Another group wants more ministries. And your church has time constraints, not to mention budget considerations. In light of both mission and limits, how does a leader make tough decisions about a church's priorities?

You'll discover what the latest research reveals about:

• what drives satisfaction with the church
• what defines the church's unique role in spiritual growth
• what people want and need most from their senior pastor
• what a senior pastor's top priorities must be

Presenting REVEAL

Get the benefit of everything we’ve learned about how to share REVEAL’s findings with multiple audiences most effectively. Communicating research can be tricky. Eyes tend to glaze over when they see too many charts and numbers. Because we’ve communicated about REVEAL with so many audiences, we’ve had the opportunity to polish our messages so that we can hit the main points without losing the audience in the research details.

Follow Me: What's Next for You

Four years of cutting-edge research: 200 churches, 80,000 people, and the breakthrough findings that will change the way you do church. Follow Me draws on the latest research to provide unprecedented insights into what drives—and derails—spiritual growth. It addresses questions every ministry leader wrestles with: How does spiritual growth happen? How do we help people move toward a more intimate and committed relationship to Christ? And it reveals the astonishingly honest responses people gave to questions about their spiritual lives.

More than anything else, what people really want is change—they want to become more like Jesus. And they’re looking to the church—to you—to help them grow.

Reveal: Where Are You?

Are you really making a difference? How do you know? For years, church leaders have relied on numbers to help answer questions like these. In other words, we ask the “How many?” question. How many attend each week? Are in small groups? Actively serve? Tithe?

Numbers can be helpful, but they don’t reveal the whole story. Numbers can't peer into the human heart. Reveal invites you to learn from its earliest findings, based on 5,000 surveys from seven churches, including Willow Creek.

You’ll learn more about what catalyzes and stunts spiritual growth. And you’ll understand how the church needs to change in order to help people become more like Christ.

You'll discover the four segments that characterize the journey of spiritual growth:

• Exploring Christ
• Growing in Christ
• Close to Christ

• Christ-centered

REVEAL uncovers and explains a spiritual continuum that identifies four segments of the spiritual journey. You'll learn more about what catalyzes and stunts spiritual growth.

Follow Me, picks up where REVEAL left off, and focuses on movement—the vital things that catalyze growth and move people from one segment to the next on the spiritual continuum.

Focus draws on REVEAL research from hundreds of churches and thousands of congregants. It presents fascinating answers to the persistent and perplexing question of wants versus needs.