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7 Ways to Derail The Church
With recent data revealing that more churches are closing than opening in the United States, we, as the church, need to open our eyes to what factors are causing this concerning trend. While some might point to a changing culture or a fallen generation, a deeper look into the churches that have closed reveals several common denominators that all of them had in common.
In this series, “7 Easy Ways to Derail The Church,” we are distilling the points from Thom Rainer’s “Autopsy of a Deceased Church” to reveal the seven main factors that lead to a church declining, and ultimately, dying. By looking at how the church of Acts avoided these pitfalls, we can better understand, not only why the early church grew the way that it did, but how we, as the church in the 21st Century, can avoid these traps and continue in our mission of more and more people experiencing the power of the Gospel.