Enrichment Journal: Leading a Turnaround Church: Critical Considerations

What is a turnaround church? Turnaround churches experience a decline nearly impossible to reverse, but somehow they do. Most churches in similar situations simply go out of business. What are the critical aspects of a church and pastor that see terminal decline turn into growth?

Let me define a turnaround church. A turnaround church has recognized that, due to consistent decline, within a generation, or less, it will be out of business. This church has courageously faced the truth and made a series of extremely difficult and painful decisions to reverse that trend. Read more