The Lewis Center has issued an updated report on the characteristics of churches disaffiliating from the United Methodist Church that covers more than 6,100 churches approved for disaffiliation through June 2023. There continue to be more similarities …

Most pastors, staff, and active church members have a good idea when attendance will drop on a given Sunday. Churches develop a discernible pattern that is repeated each year.  We asked over 400 people, mostly church leaders, to identify their lowest a…

“It’s a custom color. Bradenton plum.” The church council member and I laughed together about the project in front of us. He had been part of the original capital campaign in the late 1980s and early 1990s. “The color was popular then, but I think it’s…

It’s a massive change that few church leaders are noticing. For decades, the conventional wisdom was simple: younger generations flocked to bigger churches with contemporary music, better tech, and full-service programming. That assumption may now b…

Just imagine a culture in which the church is thought of as a body of people who are for people, even people who don’t look they would belong in the church. We start down this road as we declare with our words and demonstrate with our actions that our …

In the present generation, in particular, we’re seeing the spoiled fruit of a lot of false and faulty promises. This has led to disillusionment among attendees and a decline in attendance.
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What are the characteristics of churches disaffiliating from the United Methodist Church? Lovett H. Weems Jr. reports that there are more similarities than differences between the cohort of disaffiliating churches and the total pool of all United Metho…