5 Reasons People Walk Away from Church
Reposted from The Cripplegate.
In my fifteen years as a pastor, I’ve seen my fair share of people who have left the church. Some have left the churches where I’ve been on staff for other churches—the sort of greener pasture mentality, you could say—and others have left the church all together. Its that second category that fascinates me the most.
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Americans Quit Church but Still Search for Meaning, Now as Loners
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“[T]hese trends may be less about our abandoning the supernatural and more about our abandoning each other.” - NReview
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Survey: 2/3 of churchgoers invited someone to church
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“Nearly two-thirds of Protestant churchgoers say they’ve invited at least one person to visit their church in the past six months, according to a new LifeWay Research study.” - BPNews
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New Research: Churchgoers Stick Around for Theology, Not Music or Preachers
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“Most churchgoers will put up with a change in music style or a different preacher. But don’t mess with a church’s beliefs or there may be an exodus, according to a new study from Nashville-based LifeWay Research.” - CToday
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Three to Thrive: It’s not what you think
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Proclaim and Defend: “Holding three services, with the same size group, doing nearly the same thing in each service, is not likely meeting the discipleship needs of new believers and therefore not effectively carrying out the Great Commission.”
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Catholic Church Attendance Continues to Drop
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“A Gallup poll found 39 percent of Catholics reported attending church between 2014 and 2017. The figure is markedly lower than the 45 percent average reported from 2005 to 2008.” WRNews
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Doing Church Away from Church Isn’t Church
Reposted with permission from The Cripplegate.
by Eric Davis
Maybe you’ve heard it. “We can’t make it to church today, so we’ll just do church as a family.” “I can just do church on a hike this morning in God’s creation.” “The church is really the people, so we can do church wherever. God is everywhere, after all.”
Do we really need to go to a building on a certain day for it to count as doing church? If so, isn’t that legalistic?
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Should You Force Your Kids to Attend Church
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“If you allow your children to stop going to church because they dislike it but insist they go to math class because it is good for them, those are “atheistic” priorities, according to Russell Moore.” CPost
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New Barna Report: Growing Number of Americans "Love Jesus" but Don't Go to Church
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“Barna has released a report on the first of a two-part exploration of faith and spirituality outside the church, looking at the ‘fascinating segment of the American population who, as the saying goes, love Jesus but not the church.’”
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