TY - BOOK AU - Rainer, Thom S TI - High Expectations: The Remarkable Secret for Keeping People in Your Church SN - 0805412662 U1 - H24.1 PY - 1999/// CY - Nashville PB - Broadman and Holman Publishers KW - Church Attendance KW - Church Management KW - Church Growth N1 - includes index and biblioraphy; Churches that Reach them and Keep them .........1 How they close the back door..........11 Above All : Sunday School and the Back Door ...........29 What must I do to Join this Church ..............49 The pastor and the High- Expectations Church .....67 How prospects are Treated and evangelized .........81 Expectations Clarified : The new Member Class.......103 After They Join .......121 Vision mission , and High Expectations.....137 Obstacles to Assimilation .............153 Lessons from the high- Expectation church ...............167 Participating churches ........179 Survey Instrument ...........193 ER -