# Evangelical Burnout

Articles and videos related to what and how American Evangelicalism has gone of the rails.

• From MLM To The Freedom Of The Christian
• Surviving Evangelical Burnout
• Evangelical MLM Evangelism

# Tools, books, tapes & kingdoms

Fuller Seminary continues to popup being one of the leading factories.

Unleashing a culture of multiplication in your church.

• Auxano
• Thriving Church Institute
• Twelve Good Ways to Plant a Church - C. Peter Wagner
• The Unstuck Group
• Exponential | Your a Multiplier
• Life on Life
• The Effective Church Group
• Pastors.com
• Church Goals | Thrive Conference
• RightNow Conferences
• Radical
• Discipleship.org Random self help guru slop. Alternate version of Randy Popes story is there.

# On David Platt

Many SBC, Non-denomination, American Evangelicals are sold out, not for Christ, rather for growing their one Kingdom, downline through MLM Evangelism. Making disciples that make disciples that make disciples.

The flaw is they care nothing about Christians. Only about making their next disciple. Christians are in their way if they do not adopt their 'vision', method and tactics for, once again: making disciples that make disciples and grow their Kingdom.

Its easy to understand why David Platt got rid of all the Christian programs. These things, yes where helping Christians live in Christ as one body together, yet this was pulling people away from the factory model of: making disciples that make disciples and grow their Kingdom. Everything must give way to the vision, the mission and to growing the downline. No sacrifice is to great, even to sacrifice Christians on the alter of Church Growth.

This poison has entirely overtaken the American Evangelical Church, its everywhere.

# On Bill Hybels

This persons comment could apply to all the Church Growth Movement gurus.

Aside from Hybel's personal failings, it's clear to me that he should have gone with his first interest, which was business. He should have become a biz school prof focusing on leadership, or the founder of a Christian business like Chik-Fil-A, or a nonprofit like Compassion Int'l. He should never have been the founder and pastor of a church, because he ran Willow like a business/organization, not like an organism, part of the living Body of Christ. He built a huge organization which would have been a great success if it were a business or nonprofit, using pragmatic and customer-focused ideas to attract 1000s of "customers", but Willow is really not a biblical church full of 1000s of true believers, and Hybels is not a pastor, he's a leadership guru/organizational development guy, his speech is pure biz/leadership jargon, rather than the words and doctrines of Jesus and the Bible. It's a shame, because the business world is a perfectly good life calling for Christians with an interest in leadership and organizational stuff, but the church is not a calling for business leaders who try to act as pastors and teachers. The whole "vision casting" and "mission statement" nonsense comes from the business/nonprofit world, not from the New Testament definition of the church and the Great Commission, as the other commenters have rightly noted.

# More Evangelical Fruits & Nuts

Todd Bently: Disciple of C. Peter Wagner. One of the worst products of the Church Growth Movement.

Teasi Cannon: Victim of the Church Growth Movement tactics, methods and C. Peter Wagner's downline.

Fuller: Young People and the Church

How A Church In North Carolina Almost Lost Everything

The Real David Platt: The Hijacking of McLean Bible Church

Leadership Pipeline Conversations: Stevie Flockhart, Developing Your Team

Bill Hybels - Vision Casting