G.R.I.T.: What You Need To Revitalize Your Church

Ep.10 - Church-Killing Sins: Lack of Love

Pastor Philip Bramblet of Furnace Creek Baptist Church talks about some of the well-known sin issues that weaken and kill local churches. In this episode, he discusses lack of love. How can pastors address this issue in their church? G.R.I.T.: What You Need To Revitalize Your Church = God; Repentance; Instruction; Time.

Ep.9 - Repentance in the Church: Preaching and Praying Toward Church Revitalization

Pastor Philip Bramblet of Furnace Creek Baptist Church talks about the need for repentance in the church for revitalization. How can pastors preach and pray in ways that encourage repentance in the church? G.R.I.T. = God; Repentance; Instruction; Time.

Ep.8 - The Necessity of Personal Repentance in Leading Church Revitalization

What you need to revitalize your church: GRIT. God. Repentance. Instruction. Time. Pastor Philip Bramblet begins discussing the "R" in GRIT: Repentance. Personal repentance must start with the leadership. Pastors must take their own sin issues seriously and deal with them vigorously. We must be repentant ourselves if we hope to lead our church toward repentance.

Ep.7 - Christ and the Gospel: The Only Healthy Obsession For Church Revitalization

GRIT: God. Repentance. Instruction. Time. Pastor Philip Bramblet of Furnace Creek Baptist Church argues that if God is central to your ministry, then Christ and the Gospel is the only healthy obsession for church revitalization.

Ep.6 - The Glory and Majesty of God for Revitalization

Pastor Philip Bramblet continues discussing the need to focus on God for church revitalization. How can you lead your church to focus on God's glory if you yourself are not in awe of the God you serve? Church revitalizers must attend to their own spiritual state and then persistently magnify the majesty of God to their congregation. What you need for church revitalization is G.R.I.T. - God, Repentance, Instruction, and Time.

Ep.5 - Trusting God Alone And Prayer

In G.R.I.T. - What You Need To Revitalize Your Church, Pastor Philip Bramblet discusses important biblical essentials for church revitalization: God, Repentance, Instruction, and Time. In this episode, he highlights the need to stay focused on trusting God alone and how this is reflected in the prayer life of your church.

Ep.4 - God-Centered Revitalization

You need a lot of grit to be a church revitalization pastor. GRIT is also a good acronym to help you focus your revitalization ministry. You need God, Repentance, Instruction, and Time. In this episode, Pastor Philip Bramblet talks about the importance and meaning of being God-centered in your church revitalization efforts.

Ep.3 - God and Revitalization

What you need to revitalize your church is: God. Pastor Philip Bramblet focuses our attention on God as the ultimate and only source of life and health. Only God can bring health and life to a church. Jesus will ultimately determine the future of your (actually, his) church. Life only comes through the power of the Spirit. God--Father, Son, and Holy Spirit--is what (or who) you need to revitalize your church.

Ep.2 - My Revitalization Story

Philip Bramblet, pastor of Furnace Creek Baptist Church, tells the story of how God worked to bring revitalization to his church.

Ep 1 - Introduction to G.R.I.T.

In this initial episode, Pastor Philip Bramblet of Furnace Creek Baptist Church in Rocky Mount, VA introduces the acronym G.R.I.T. as a focus for church revitalization. You need God, Repentance, Instruction, and Time. He also discusses if church revitalization requires a particular personality type.