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The Unstuck Church Podcast with Amy Anderson
The Challenges of Church Decline - Episode 293
Apr 26, 2023
This podcast explores the challenges faced by declining churches and offers actionable solutions. Topics include the impact of the maintenance phase on attendance, vision, and financial stability, the giving lag in churches and its relation to church growth, the importance of renewing the vision and simplifying ministry strategy in the maintenance phase, and the importance of being open to change and adopting new methods in declining churches.
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- Churches in the declining side of the life cycle must prioritize renewing their vision, reaching new people, and simplifying their ministry programs to return to health.
- Churches in the preservation phase need to create urgency around change, revisit their mission, and make necessary governance adjustments to simplify their structure in order to move towards health.
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Challenges of the Declining Side of the Church Life Cycle
The declining side of the church life cycle presents unique challenges for churches, including finding clarity of mission. When churches lose focus on their mission and the people they aim to reach, decline becomes inevitable. The declining side consists of three phases: maintenance, preservation, and life support. In the maintenance phase, attendance growth plateaus or declines while finances remain relatively stable. Complexity and over-programming are major challenges in this phase. To return to health, churches in maintenance need to prioritize renewing their vision, reaching new people, and simplifying their ministry programs.
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