people leaving

One of the most significant reasons for stagnating and declining attendance is church dropouts. The most challenging problem is that church dropouts rarely return.

Sometimes, one of the best things you can do to become even more effective at accomplishing your mission is to invite people to leave your church.

Church leaders might think they know why people leave church, all while being very mistaken. Here are 5 ways churches contribute to the reasons why people leave them.

There are times when you’ll lose people because your church didn’t do well at keeping people connected—and these losses hurt because you know you could have done something different.

While writing off the church passes as sophisticated thinking, it’s actually the opposite; what if it’s a simplistic and even reductionistic line of thinking that leads nowhere constructive?

One question on the minds of all pastors is "why did they leave?'

What to say when encountering people who are looking for "something new" because of problems at their past church.