So…why are even committed attenders attending less often? There are at least 10 reasons. The first key to addressing what’s happening is to understand what’s happening.
But attendance a sign of something deeper that every church leader is going to have to wrestle with over the next few years. Of course, church attendance is never the goal. It probably marks a seismic shift in how the church will do ministry in the future. It impacts almost every church regardless of size, denomination or even location. This trend isn’t going away…in fact (as the podcasts will show) it’s accelerating, John Mark Comer on Secular Salvation and Post Christian America ( Episode 316 of my Leadership Podcast)ĥ Ways to Embrace Infrequent Church Attendersġ0 Predictions About the Future Church And Shifting Attendance Patternsħ Ways to Grow Church Attendance By Increasing Engagement This topic comes up a lot, and some other resources that can help you do a deeper dive include:
SMALL GROUPDISCUSSION QUESTIONS FOR EGO IS THE ENEMY SERIES
This isn’t a post about why people have left the church (that’s a different subject.) This is the first in a series of posts about church attenders who love God, appreciate the local church and are even involved in the local church, but who simply attend less often. But the conversation persists and, to many leaders, feels much more urgent. I first wrote about this in a post called 7 Ways to Respond as People Attend Church Less Often. Sure, the trend has been happening for years (gone are the days when people attended 50 out of 52 Sundays), but the issue has reached a tipping point in the church over the last decade. The issue? Even committed church attenders are attending church less often. And no one’s quite sure how to respond to it. It comes up in a surprising number of conversations a lot.
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