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

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

Church revitalization is hard, dangerous work. If you want to see your church grow in health and life, you’ll need a lot of toughness and sheer grit. Pastor Philip Bramblet talks about the basics and essentials of church revitalization through the acronym of G.R.I.T. - God; Repentance; Instruction; and Time. This series is especially for average, non-exceptional, faithful pastors like Philip who need growth and encouragement in their church revitalization efforts.

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July 14, 2025 19 mins

Pastor Philip Bramblet of Furnace Creek Baptist Church in Rocky Mount, VA talks about instructing your congregation in what the gospel actually is. Many Christians are unable to articulate the content of the gospel accurately because they have not been well taught. GRIT: God, Repentance, Instruction, Time.

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In this episode, Pastor Philip Bramblet of Furnace Creek Baptist Church talks about the kind of healthy instruction a church needs for revitalization.

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February 11, 2025 25 mins

Pastor Philip Bramblet of Furnace Creek Baptist Church in Rocky Mount, VA describes fifteen kinds of sermons which, if they are the steady diet of the congregation, will make a church unhealthy. GRIT: God; Repentance: Instruction; Time.

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January 27, 2025 20 mins

Biblical instruction is needed for a church to see revitalization and become healthy again. Pastor Philip Bramblet of Furnace Creek Baptist Church discusses five areas of focus for biblical instruction. GRIT: God, Repentance, Instruction, Time.

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Pastor Philip Bramblet of Furnace Creek Baptist Church in Rocky Mount, VA talks about the need for patience and wisdom in church revitalization, especially when leading your church toward repentance and change. GRIT: God, Repentance, Instruction, Time.

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The attitudes and actions that characterize sick, dying churches are common and well-known. In this episode, Pastor Philip Bramblet of Furnace Creek Baptist Church goes through lists of these characteristics from four different church revitalization books, showing how much they overlap. GRIT: What You Need to Revitalize Your Church. God, Repentance, Instruction, Time

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Pastor Philip Bramblet of Furnace Creek Baptist Church talks about a sin that will potentially kill a local church: lack of biblical church discipline. Tolerance of persistent unrepentance from sin or serious false teaching will ultimately destroy your church. G.R.I.T.: What you need to revitalize your church. God. Repentance. Instruction. Time.

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Pastor Philip Bramblet of Furnace Creek Baptist Church talks about church-killing sins that commonly appear in unhealthy churches. This episode deals with lack of reconciliation. GRIT: What you need to revitalize your church - God; Repentance; Instruction; Time.

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Pastor Philip Bramblet of Furnace Creek Baptist Church talks about the need for repentance in church revitalization. In this episode, he discusses the problem of lack of evangelism. G.R.I.T.: What You Need To Revitalize Your Church. God. Repentance. Instruction. Time.

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Pastor Philip Bramblet of Furnace Creek Baptist Church continues discussing the need for repentance in church revitalization. In this episode: the church-killing sin of prayerlessness. G.R.I.T.: What You Need to Revitalize Your Church. God; Repentance; Instruction; Time.

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January 20, 2025 18 mins

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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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January 16, 2025 19 mins

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.

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January 15, 2025 16 mins

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.

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January 15, 2025 15 mins

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.

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January 15, 2025 21 mins

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

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January 14, 2025 14 mins

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.

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