4. To start a new church or a new campus.
When you’re sending some of your best volunteers to go support a new church plant or campus, that’s a great reason for someone to leave a church.
Hiving off people to start a new church or campus not only is catalytic in the support of that new work, but also if done well it infuses an entrepreneurial, gospel-driven spirit in the culture of the sending church and creates room for new people who have yet to say yes to following Jesus!
5. It forces staff to develop new talent.
Churches are notorious for having the same people volunteer in the same role week after week, month after month, year after year. In fact, a lot of churches get stuck in their volunteer culture for this very reason.
Many staff even have their “go to” volunteers that they know, love and trust. And while it’s not bad to know, love and trust a volunteer, if it leads you to overuse or abuse a volunteer, that’s another thing altogether. When people leave your church who were volunteering, it forces staff to allow “outsiders” to break in.
The truth is, people are always going to leave your church. Some will receive a job transfer, others will relocate for family reasons, while still others will simply get mad at you because you didn’t behave the way they expected you to and they’ll take their toys and go to another church down the street. The good news is you get to choose who goes and who stays by the leadership decisions you make every day.
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