There are 3 not so obvious reasons that church visitors don’t return to your church. All pastors know the feeling. A new couple visits on a Sunday morning. Maybe they just moved to the area and they are looking for a church, or a friend invited them, or they decided to give church a try. They seem really sharp, exactly the demographic you are trying to reach. You have a great conversation in the lobby.
They promise to be back next week, but they’re not. They never come back.
Another family comes three weeks in a row. Each weekend you see them in the lobby after church and it seems like they are really connecting. They miss the fourth week, but they’re back on the fifth. And then they never come back.
What happened? Why didn’t these families connect? Why do so many people flow through your church without sticking?
You’ve read the books, been to the conferences and tried everything you can think of, but the back door of your church is always wide open. What is going on?
While I haven’t been to your church, or if I have let’s pretend I haven’t, I have visited scores of church across the country and I know why many people don’t stick.
Sometimes the music is really bad or the preaching is really boring or the children’s ministry is really awful, but there are other, less obvious, reasons church visitors don’t return.... Read More
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