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https://churchanswers.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/common-factor-decline.jpg628250Over fifteen years ago, I led a major research project on the characteristics of the most evangelistic churches in my denomination. My team was able to identify 576 churches that represented the top five percent of all churches in conversion growth. From that point, we were able to identify nine correlated characteristics of churches that...