It is just not hope for small town Churches, but for many Churches like here in Albuquerque with a metro over 1/2 million that have just 10 to 20 people in them on Sundays. People just do not go to Church anymore, you have to invite them and pick them up at their home and take them to your Church! EVANGELISIM IS NOT FOR THE WEAK AND LAZY! When I preached out at FBC in Reserve, population under 300, head Deacon Charles McCargish, in his 80’s at the time, was always brining someone to Church with him and his lovely wife Joan!
I have been yelling rom the roof tops that the biggest failure of many Churches is not carrying out The Great Commission! I have shouting it from the rooftops until I am blue in the face! I have written about this and preached about this for years! This failure is why some Churches have just 10 to 25 people in them! The Great Commission is a COMMAND from JESUS! NOT A SUGGESTION!
Church attendance continues to fall in America! Church Attendance in America Declines. The main reason is the failure to carry out The Great Commission! Why Churches Talk the Great Commission But Don’t Do It
Baptist Press
By Erin Roach, posted April 3, 2024 in
LONGVIEW, Texas (BP) — Mulberry Springs Baptist Church, about 15 miles northeast of Longview, doesn’t see a lot of traffic on a typical day. Yet the rural congregation—founded in 1892—is building a new worship space to seat nearly 800 people.
“We’re in a community of houses. We’ve got a little country store that just opened, but that’s it,” Pastor Danny Warbington said. “You’re not coming out here unless you live here, or maybe you’re going to make your way to Lake O’ the Pines, which is a beautiful place to camp and fish. Otherwise, we’re kind of in no man’s land.”
Before Warbington got to the church 18 years ago, attendance was a little over 100 and the discouraged congregation had moved back to its older, smaller meeting space. Things began to look up when the interim who preceded Warbington—an evangelist—started preaching the gospel and seeing people get saved. More Here
I preached at a Church this year that had seating for 300 plus, but just 17 people in Church. No families with children in Church. Only one young person in Church that Sunday. The Lord showed me that it was dead. No effort was being made to carry out The Great Commission.
Many Pastors have to work at a full-time job to support their family. All Church members are to help their Pastor carry out The Great Commission! Many Churches are made up of folks like me that are almost 70. Every Church needs what we call in baseball, a farm system, in the Church its called Sunday school for kids to grow them up to be mature Christians and leaders of Churches!
If you do not have children in your Church, your Church does not have much of a future.