Greg
New Member
Posts: 63
CotN Connection: Pastor of The Point Church, San Jose, CA
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Post by Greg on Sept 28, 2017 10:26:59 GMT -5
Our problem is not churches that attract other Christians. Other Christians are the low hanging fruit. Our problem is that we cannot even get that low hanging fruit.
If a leader cannot keep ready-made Christians, there is no way in the world he or she will be able to attract and keep a secular person.
Already churched people change churches for all kinds of reasons. They are church shopping. If they visit your church and not many of them decide to stay, you won't be attracting or keeping unchurched ones either.
Case in point. I am a big Tim Keller fan. I don't think he has ever preached a sermon or written a book I haven't read, regardless of the fact that his sermons have rarely ministered to me. But he knows how to connect with the unchurched unlike anyone I know. So I am a part of his world. Not because he caters to me, but because I like his mission and I want to join him in it. In a way, I am an extension of his ministry. In the same way, if already Christians are not inspired and wanting to join what you as a leader are doing, you probably aren't doing it.
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Post by Emiko Cothran on Sept 28, 2017 11:09:47 GMT -5
We live in a world that is getting bigger and bigger! We are becoming annonymous. I think what church can offer is a smaller, closer knit community. A village to help raise your child, etc. A lot of time they miss that focuse.
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Post by Susan Unger on Oct 1, 2017 19:56:18 GMT -5
We live in a world that is getting bigger and bigger! We are becoming annonymous. I think what church can offer is a smaller, closer knit community. A village to help raise your child, etc. A lot of time they miss that focuse. Yes! I asked a woman who started to attend my church faithfully after a decade of not wanting to be in church [due to her previous dysfunctional church] what her thoughts are about being back in church and in a committed way. She said that it was so meaningful and important to be a part of a close knit community that cares what happens to her.
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