I revised my letter to Disciples Today due to errors I made with statistics. The full revised letter can be read here.

Hello editors of DToday! I hope the day is treating you well.

I am afraid that I made two errors in my original letter. The first was ICC membership. Were I comparing apples to apples, I would have given the numbers for US membership. Instead, I provided worldiwde membership. The second error was a mistaken source of data. I had thought that it came from the Census, but instead was a survey performed by the City Univeristy of New York. I arrived at the link from the census.gov site and mistakenly attributed the source incorrectly. In discourse, it is necessary to be accurate, and I apologize for misleading statistics.

The entire paragraph under “2. We need to learn how to water and grow mature churches.” should read:

Again, other churches outside our fellowship have found ways to mature their churches. I humbly suggest that as we listen to God in faith, we hear what he has already taught others in maturing their congregations. There is an organization of the Independent Christian Churches that work with more progressive Churches of Christ to plant churches throughout the US. They are thorough and strategic as a visit to their website will demonstrate. This organization is called Stadia – www.stadia.cc. They provide coaching and other assistance to promote healthy church growth and maturity.Other success stories of Churches of Christ are also available at the Harding Center for Church Growth. I believe that together with others, we can succesfully plant new churches without repeating the mistakes of our past.