What Do I Do When My Church Stops Growing?
When your growth stagnates, it's often an opportunity to discover new things about yourself and your church.
When your growth stagnates, it's often an opportunity to discover new things about yourself and your church.
If you are willing to surrender over your walk with the Lord, God can use you as a change agent to impact your community like never before.
The growth of non-denominational churches shows that these congregations are more evangelistic, and are more intentional about reaching their communities with the gospel.
Take Up the Multiplication Intent of Jesus
In order to effectively plant and spread the gospel in today's communities, we must understand and cultivate the cultural soil around us.
As you welcome the new members and celebrate the changes, do not neglect the longtime leaders who have served this church in good times and bad. God wants your church to grow should inform how you pursue healthy growth.
Membership in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island and Vermont churches together grew by 1% from 2017 to 2022. Southern Baptist growth in Northeast is evident as the only region with numerical growth.
When you get radically generous, it invites the blessing of God in a supernatural way. Ashley Wooldridge's journey exemplifies this principle.
When a church focuses on the person as a whole and not the transactional relationship often, they see Christ in the person and not the person inside the local church, which begins to tare the veil of developing relationships to become pew warmers.
When you find that you’ve stopped growing, you’ve probably exhausted the capacity of leaders in your organization. Is your staff ready to lead at a higher level? Are your volunteer leaders ready to duplicate their teams with a second leader?