He didn’t whisper it quietly in a board meeting. When Howard Schultz returned as CEO of Starbucks, he readily admitted that the corporation had lost its way. If you’re ready to change in order to reach the people nearby, the following three steps from the business community can help: So what should we do about that? We can keep telling people to change or we can change to reach people. In this case: People don’t value what you offer as much as they used to. It’s a passive communication of key information. The business community would call less frequent attendance a market signal. Nothing changes while the results decline. Yet we often see churches providing the same services year in and year out. Pastors are often telling us that people are attending their services less frequently. Is your church insisting on something people no longer value?
Today, its market share is a mere sliver of its past. All the while leading companies were experimenting with “paperless offices.”īlackberry continued to make security the hallmark of its brand while users began caring more about features than privacy. Newspapers insisted people should still pay for words to be printed and dropped at their doorsteps. They eventually tried to go digital but they were far too late.
It doesn’t end well…īlockbuster over-expanded in physical locations and held onto them for far too long. Just imagine if a business refused to adjust to its surroundings.
We must adjust to reach the people in our communities. We can no longer expect people to change themselves to fit our models of ministry. And the church no longer holds the level of influence it once did. Here’s the situation we find ourselves in today: Culture is changing. “Millennials think watching church online still counts!” When you start blaming your people for your problems, you’ll run out of people faster than you run out of problems. “Parents just don’t care about the spiritual growth of their families like they used to.” “People would rather be at the ball field than church on Sunday morning.” Yet it’s the very mindset holding many church leaders back. Sounds like a surefire way to run a business, doesn’t it? Organizations like that don’t keep their doors open for long. I could do a sermon or two on giving.“Our customer is the problem. The elders have no one to follow in their footsteps in many cases. The population of young people in rural New Mexico is dropping as there are not many jobs and also many just do not go to Church. With the older demographics of many Churches, it is stressful for many Pastors. God performs miracles all the time here at FGGAM, like the time Pastor Ruben and Lucy Gomez of Midland, Texas donated the ‘JESUS CAR’ to us! AWE OF GOD!!!! I like to shout it from the rooftops! It is an interesting dynamic, I know some Churches that are kept going by one just a few individuals. But God has surrounded us with very, very faithful givers and keeps us going. So very many soak in our resources and never give, that holds true here at FGGAM and so very many ministries. I was taught in Christian radio that only 10% of the listeners give, so very true, that or less. Top 10 Reasons People Don’t Give to The Church But when we began asking more questions, we found five good explanations for increased giving. We have been analyzing the phenomenon to attempt to discern why and how giving increases when attendance decreases. But that means that 56 percent of the churches experienced either increased or level giving. Five Reasons Your Church’s Giving Is Increasing Even Though Attendance Is LowerĬhurch Answers found that 44 percent of congregations experienced decreased giving since the pandemic began.
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