Category: Church Growth

• Leaky Buckets: On Church Attrition

  Thom Rainer, Founder and CEO of Church Answers, recently noted: I’m still not sure what to make of this analysis. I am in no way doubting the veracity. I also realize that these stats represent a national average, and that there will be some varaince from community to community. For instance, where I live, in…

  Dennis Griffith

  March 17, 2023

  Church, Church Growth

• Consumer Church Schedule

  Dennis Griffith

  February 12, 2015

  Church, Church Growth

  Church Satire, Consumer Christianity, Consumer Church, Consumerist Church of the Sacred Demographic, How Not to Grow a Church, Unhealthy Churches

• Three Times a Month

  Thom Rainer recently noted that there has been a marked change in the measure of comitment the average Christian had to his or her church. At least there has been a change in one measurable detail: An active church member 15 years ago attended church three times a week. Now it’s three times a month…

  Dennis Griffith

  January 13, 2015

  Church, Church Growth, Church Health, Ministry

  Chruch Attendance, Church Health, Church Trends, Churchless Christianity, Thom Rainer

• Is Bigger Really Better?

  No matter how much I have grown to despise the discussion, it seems I cannot avoid it entirely.  Almost any conversation about church, it seems, inevitably gravitates in some form toward the Bigger is Better or Great Things Come in Small Packages debate. It is not always an actual debate. In fact it is probably…

  Dennis Griffith

  January 9, 2015

  Church, Church Growth, Church Health, Ministry

  Christian Schwartz, Church, Church Health, Church Size, Ed Stetzer, Measure of a Church, Measuring Church Health, Ministry, Neil Cole