WHY DO SOME CHURCHES GROW? WHY DO SOME CHURCHES DIE?

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Why do some churches die? First, because they become spiritual Dead Seas, always feeding in on themselves.

Like an old car constantly recharging the battery but never driving out of the driveway.

Why do some churches die? Secondly, because they fall victim to an ill-conceived assumption, that they are limited by geography. “We should have built where people can daily SEE us?” rather than “We’ll BE SO BUSY to and for the people they will HEAR about us and then come to us on their own.”

Thirdly that religion is a Sunday thing and not be remembered or discussed on other days or other places. EMPTY CHURCHES DURING THE WEEK ALMOST GUARANTEE AN EMPTY CHURCH ON SUNDAY MORNING.

Fourthly, that whatever needs to be done to keep a church alive must be done by the clergy. Since laymen outnumber clergy believing this fourth reason to be true is enough in itself to court disaster.

Again, why do some churches grow? Because it’s members won’t shut up about their Lord or their church.

In THE LIFE OF SAMUEL JOHNSON Boswell relates how as a boy Johnson refused to go to the market place with his father, to sell books. He was, for some boyish reason, ashamed. Years later, he was shamed by the remembrance of this refusal so much that as an old man he stood all one day in the spot where his father’s bookstall had been…the rain came down in torrents but he never moved.

Why do some churches die? Because it’s members, for some reason are ashamed and secretive and quiet about their faith, very very quiet.

In the 19th chapter of John, the 38th verse, there is the following quote “Joseph of Arimathea, a disciple of Jesus, but secretly.” That is the problem, now isn’t it? The secret society called Christians. Neither by word nor deed making anywhere near as big a mark on the community as it could and should.

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