The Passion Driven Congregation

What can sustain a church''s growth over a lengthy period of time especially across a change in senior pastors? Long successful pastorates are customarily followed by brief unhappy ones and then by a period of stagnation and even decline. Carver McGriff and Kent Millard succesive pastors of St. Luke''s United Methodist Church in Indianapolis demonstrate how a theologically and socially progressive church can be faithful to its particular character and still experience significant sustained numerical growth.