There’s no doubt the church is undergoing a massive cultural shift as people attend church less often, and even regular attenders show up less frequently than before. (I outlined that trend in detail in this five part blog series.)
As much as everything is changing and we need to respond to that, almost every church still hold weekend service and likely will for years to come.
So, in the meantime, what can you do to help reach more people? What can you do to boost weekend church attendance?
Before you think this is just a numbers game, realize it’s also a spiritual issue.
To me, declining attendance is a spiritual issue because I believe that disconnected people rarely grow spiritually.
Connect people and they grow. Disconnect people, and they don’t.
So, naturally, I’m motivated to connect people.
Can we connect people outside Sunday? Absolutely. By all means connect people through groups, other gatherings, in local mission and so much more.
And yet this truth remains: the weekend service is, functionally, a primary way most people connect with the church and connect with God.
So to ignore Sundays is to ignore a reality that impacts hundreds of millions of people every week. Keep reading
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