Exit Interviews : Revealing Stories of Why People Are Leaving the Church
Quote: Most books on church growth have people standing at the front door, asking why they joined. In this book, Hendricks stands at the back door, asking "Why are you leaving?" The answers will...
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At its heart, cognitive dissonance theory is rather simple. It begins with the idea of cognitions. Cognitions are simply bits of knowledge. They can pertain to any variety of thoughts, values, facts,...
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Gordon Jones In my opinion, one of the most serious threats on evangelicalism today is the tendancy of people to equate the leaders of the church with the gospel. When the visual leaders fail, such as...
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To abandon your faith community because it's leaders are flawed shows a disturbing misunderstanding of the Gospel. Of course we're flawed... and God STILL calls us to lead.
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NMOCM wrote: To abandon your faith community because it's leaders are flawed shows a disturbing misunderstanding of the Gospel. Of course we're flawed... and God STILL calls us to lead. To abandon...
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Recently a dear friend asked a question similar to this: "Why have you abandoned the institutional church? Isn't she the bride of Christ? She may be messed up but that doesn't mean we should forsake...
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...what do you do then with all the biblical text that does tell us to go to church? There actually aren't any biblical text that tell us to "go" to church Hebrews 10:24-25 says: And let us consider...
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Wow, these are exactly the reasons I stopped going to church. I didn't think there were any churches NOT like this
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Jerome wrote: Wow, these are exactly the reasons I stopped going to church. I didn't think there were any churches NOT like this Jerome: Welcome to ExCatholic! . . . there are a few good churches out...
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Christendom as we have known it is crumbling. Church splits multiply daily. Members leave a church and join another group and shortly find that they are just as unhappy inside themselves as they were...
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The statistics are clear: people are leaving the church at a rapid pace. According to a twelve-year research project overseen by British demographer David Barrett for Oxford University Press, some...
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Posted by (weh) on 02/28/2009 at 09:02 pm. Everyone is right to an extent above...Read More
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Hi! My name is pronounced “Sean” in case you’re wondering. I’m married with three sons and live in South Alabama. I am a seminary graduate and former pastor. I did all the religious stuff under my...
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What should the Church do about all the people leaving her ranks? One priest has suggested conducting "exit interviews" to learn from them. But would this show practical, pastoral concern? Or, rather,...
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According to Gallup's study The Unchurched American, 60 percent of the unchurched believe that "most churches and synagogues have lost the real spiritual part of religion," and 50 percent agree that...
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It would be fair to say thatSubmitted by kscrawler (not verified) on Oct. 13, 2010.It would be fair to say that there are many reasons not just one, why people leave the Church, but I suspect your...
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When Catholics and Protestants ponder the reasons for people leaving church, perhaps they should return to the irreducible core of Christian theology. Yes, there are different ways to express that...
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KarenJuly 16, 2010 11:12 PMFor many years I was around people who wondered where there first love and excitement over finding God's love had gone. We were in an evangelical, independent church that...
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Christians who find themselves in a legalistic church or under legalistic teachers really need to leave. There is almost no chance that you can change them but there can be a few exceptions in those...
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We also eventually opted out of all organized churches in the belief that churches are straight-jackets, very narrow minded, even closed minded, very controlled and very man-made, with customs and...
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