Grow Your Church
Published on Apr 28, 2016
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Grow Your Church
Building Attendance Through Outreach
Grow Your Church
- Understand The Situation
- Understand The Sources
- Understand the Solutions
- Undertake the Strategy
Understand the Situation
Is Your Church Growing?
Newsflash
Extra! Extra!
8 Churches Close Daily
IN THE US and CANADA
Church Buildings are Converted into Condos
Church Buildings are Converted into Restaurants
Church Buildings are Converted into Book Stores
Church Buildings are Converted into Pharmacies
Church Buildings are Converted into Pubs
Church Buildings are Converted into Breweries
Church Buildings Become Donut Stores
Church Buildings Are Converted into Day Spas
Church Buildings Are Converted into Fight Clubs
Church Buildings Are Converted into Night Clubs
Church Growth Stats
- 76%+ aren't growing
- 19% grow from transfers
- 5% grow from evangelism
- Which describes your church?
- What needs to be done?
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Annual Growth Rate
Individual or Group Exercise
Ways to Use Growth Rate
- For single year net growth
- For multi-year growth rate
- For previous year-month average
- For next fiscal year planning
- For help with hiring planning
- For space usage planning
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Figuring Your AGR
- Take this year's overall annual weekly attendance average (e.g., 180 or 1800)
- Now subtract last year's weekly attendance average (e.g., 125 or 1250)
- Take increase/decrease (e.g., 55 or 550) and divide it by last year's attendance (e.g., 125 or 1250), then total (e.g., 0.44)
- Multiply that amount x 100 for growth rate 'percentage' (e.g. 0.44 x 100= 44)
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AGR Calculation Tips
- Always calculate both years' exact same (full or part year) data
- Don't compare different times of years
- Do it with multiple ministries or over multiple years for trendlines
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A Genuine Commitment to the Gospel Produces a Commitment to Church Growth
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Growth Rate Categories
- +5% or more net growth = Growing
- -4 to +4% = Plateaued
- -5% or more net growth = Declining
- Establish Your Growth Rate Category
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Understand the Sources
Are You Maximizing Each Church Growth Source?
Natural/Biological Factors
- Number of births/year
- Number of adoptions/year
- Number of divorces/year
- Average congregant age
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Transfer Growth Factors
- Stability of Church Leadership
- Quality of Ministries
- Word of Mouth Promotion
- Church Reputation
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Conversion Growth Factors
- Evangelistic Commitments
- Evangelistic Programming
- Personal Evangelism
- Conversion-to-Membership Rate
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Evaluate Source Weaknesses
Action Steps
- How can we increase effectiveness in biological growth-conversion growth?
- How can we increase our evangelistic-conversion growth?
- How can we responsibly increase our transfer growth (or do we want to)?
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Understand the Solutions
Are You Correcting Each Church Growth Problem?
Absence of Outreach
- Emphasize and Equip for Personal Evangelism
- Emphasize and Schedule for Mass Evangelism
- Develop Evangelistic-Outreach Programming (attraction-based programs, events, & activities)
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Reduce Attrition
- Attrition = Places you lose people from your church (leaks)
- Identify Attrition Sources
- Know Your Annual "Attrition Rate" So You Don't Plateau or Decline
- Close Attrition Sources That Can Be Controlled
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Increase Assimilation
- "Assimilation" is to integrate new people into your ministry and help them stick/stay
- Identify Assimilation Rate
- Increase Assimilation Rate by Identifying Ways to Fix It
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Understand the Strategies
Are You Intentionally and Proactively Growing?
How Can You Increase Outreach?
Personal, Mass Evangelism and Programming
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How Can You Fix Attrition?
What are Controllable Factors?
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How Can You Fix Assimilation?
Controllable Ways to Help People "Belong" and "Stick"
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Growth Suggestions
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Growth Suggestions
- Fight for Your Kids and Families: Don't let them just walk away from the faith and the local church
- Actually notice and care when people stop coming: Build systems that tell you they're not there, and go find the lost sheep
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Growth Suggestions
- Train people in winsome evangelism and encourage them to do it
- Make it easy and painless for people to invite unchurched people to your congregation
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Growth Suggestions
- Identify the Benefits of Membership and Make them Matter (actual benefits, not just talk)
- Increase number-type-frequency of "on ramps" (safe events/experiences) into your ministry and events, to disarm, reach, and connect with people
- Identify outreach appropriate for people at different places of lost-ness and hardness of heart: 'hostile, resistant, neutral, open, and responsive"
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Free Discipleship and Ministry Resources
Sources
- Slides 5 & 7: http://www.mychurchgrowth.com/church%20growth/agr.php
