5 Reasons People Leave a Church

More on closing the back door… I have been mulling over why people leave or don’t attend regularly.
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Thoughts on jargon

As I was sitting here doing income taxes, I overheard my husband and son conversing during a video game.
Albert: Oh no! He broke my judo outfit! Now I will get death sentenced! How do I win this?
Daniel: You nullify sleep.
Albert: I wonder if he can vampire suck me.
Daniel: Height prime numbers is good.
Albert: If I [...]

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Christmas Eve Service

Our church, University Covenant Church, had three Christmas Eve services. Since this was my first time attending, I really didn’t know what to expect. They were great!! Wonderful job done by all, from the music to the drama, children’s story reading, message, video, etc.
Our band started out with the Transiberian Orchestra’s “Christmas in Sarajevo.” First [...]

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A rash of boring meetings

I have always loved meetings. I know that people think that I am extremely strange (and I can’t say I disagree) when I say I have 8 meetings (or more) in one day and look very happy about it.
But lately I have been in a rash of meetings that have taken away my taste for [...]

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Loneliness in Leadership

My friend Brian, who is a pastor, posted a while back about loneliness in leadership. His post really resonated with me, and the number of responses that he received showed that people really care and can relate.
There’s something about leadership, particularly church leadership, that causes loneliness. Perhaps it feels more acute in church leadership because [...]

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Group Life kickoff

Today was Group Life Sunday, our first go-around to have an all-church effort on people joining small groups.
Personally, it was hugely rewarding as it really felt like a team effort with the Group Life team, senior pastor, support staff, communications director, worship director and other helpful people!
We put together a Group Life directory that lists [...]

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Getting control of life again

This has been a rough week for me, for a number of reasons:

Fell sick over a week ago, took a long time to recover, making me fall behind.
Went to a conference for two days that same week – more time away, and more falling behind.
Preached that Sunday – due to falling behind, only got 2 [...]

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funny post

This is a hilarious picture: “You know you are in youth ministry if…”

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VBS Day One

Today our church started the first day of Group Publishing’s Power Labs Vacation Bible School.
The children’s ministry team here has done an outstanding job putting this event together! They are part-time staff but have put in more than full-time hours pulling this together with an incredible army of volunteers.
Registration tables got swamped with new people [...]

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Slowing down

I have a hard time slowing down. In my former job, I worked 60-80 hours a week, with the max about 115 hours one week. 60 would be considered a slow week. It’s one of the reasons that our family felt it was good for me to make the move to this new job.
So I [...]

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