A Sociologist Reviews Willow Creek’s Follow Me at Ray Fowler .org

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Brad Wright reviews Willow Creek’s Follow Me: What’s Next for You? (Reveal II) by Greg Hawkins and Cally Parkinson. What’s the difference between Reveal and Follow Me?

Reveal uncovers and explains a spiritual continuum that identifies four segments of the spiritual journey … Follow Me focuses on movement—the vital things that catalyze growth and move people from one segment to the next on the spiritual continuum.

Here are the links to Brad’s 13-part review:

A Review of Willow Creek’s Follow Me: What’s Next for You?

Summary of Findings

Strengths of the Study

Why Collect Data

What’s New?

Answering longitudinal questions with cross-sectional data

Which comes first? Spiritual growth or behaviors and attitudes?

Is the spiritual continuum a useful concept?

Do church services matter? Apparently yes.

The gap between importance and satisfaction

Is academic research of value to the church?