Popular preacher and author Charley Reeb shares four preaching strategies to grow your church, all based on the notion that we have to connect with people’s interests and meet them where they are. To celebrate the Lewis Center’s anniversary, we are hig…

You’ve heard a lot about how the pandemic hurt church attendance. Yeah. Me too. It’s true, but it’s becoming a bit tiresome. We can watch online. We can study the Bible digitally. “Going to church” is no longer needed.  Yep, I’ve heard them too. How ma…

Many churches today lament worship attendance numbers that have not returned to pre-pandemic levels. Lovett H. Weems Jr. says this is an unhelpful comparison. He recommends that churches turn their attention away from the past and focus on a bold and f…

Between Easter and Christmas, Mother’s Day may be the most likely day people will attend church, according to a recent study by LifeWay Research. In a national poll of 1,000 Protestant pastors, LifeWay Research asked what the three highest attend…

To be clear, church leaders and members should not seek to lower worship attendance. After all, that would result in fewer people worshipping together and listening to biblical preaching. But not all losses in attendance are bad. We have heard from church leaders several ways the decline can be healthy for the church. Here are…

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Over nine out of ten church leaders describe their church’s decline in attendance in streaming worship services as “major.” Many of them say the decline is at least 90 percent from its peak during the pandemic. While we certainly anticipated that many church members would return to in-person worship attendance after the quarantine, we were…

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While social media and even traditional media are still preoccupied with mega churches and multi-site churches, the reality is that most churches in North America are quite small. The Barna group pegs the average Protestant church size in America at 89…