The Silent Shift: Why Your Core Members Are Attending Less (and Telling You Nothing) If you only measure loss by membership rolls, you’ll miss what’s happening in real time. People are LYING About Church Attendance For years, surveys have said 22% of Americans attend church every week. New research from
There may not be a Christian revival, but Britain’s traditional churches aren’t doomed In the same week that a new archbishop of Canterbury was installed, YouGov admitted that a poll suggesting there was a “quiet revival” of Christianity was a dud. It had been inflated by fraudulent results and should
Six Reasons Pastors Must Be More Courageous Today Though there have certainly been more difficult times in the course of church history for pastors, leading a church today is much tougher than it was 20 and 30 years ago. There have been some demographic and cultural shifts that reflect this
Everyone Else Forgot Gen X. Has Your Church Done the Same? They were the latchkey kids. The skeptical middle children of modern history. The generation that learned independence early and distrust slowly. And now, as the Church in America strains to understand Millennials and chases Gen Z, a quieter question
An Inclusive Church Will Be a Growing Church Healthy churches pay attention to the people God has placed around them. When ministry reflects the realities of the surrounding community, congregations bear fruit; when it does not, decline often follows. In this piece from his new book An Aura of Hope,
St. George’s on St. Charles Avenue What if they don’t come back? The connection cards are on your desk. Someone on staff has formatted a spreadsheet. You’ve been told there’s a 48-hour window — that this is when the harvest happens, when the people who showed up on Easter Sunday
God’s Mission Has a Zip Code: Tangible Ways Your Church Can Love the People Next Door As Paul wrote, “Christ’s love controls us” (2 Corinthians 5:14, NLT). Your home, your job, your school—they’re not accidents. God has placed you exactly where He wants you. Your neighbors are not random. They’re
Gallup Poll: Fewer than half of Americans say religion is ‘very important’ in their lives President Trump said he was ‘bringing back religion,’ but the latest Gallup Poll shows no evidence of that. The Real Reason Women Are Walking Away From Church Beth Moore talks about leaving the SBC a