Autopsy of a Deceased Church: 11 Things I Learned

I bumped into this blog post. It has been around for a while. It has had over 40.000 views. It was written by church consultant Thom S Ranier.  http://thomrainer.com
Thom has a pod cast about this post that you may want to listen to
http://thomrainer.com/2013/05/17/autopsy-of-a-deceased-church-rainer-on-leadership-005/
Autopsy of a Deceased Church: 11 Things I Learned
Thom S Ranier
I was their church consultant in 2003. The church’s peak attendance was 750 in 1975. By the time I got there the attendance had fallen to an average of 83. The large sanctuary seemed to swallow the relatively small crowd on Sunday morning.
The reality was that most of the members did not want me there. They were not about to pay a consultant to tell them what was wrong with their church. Only when a benevolent member offered to foot my entire bill did the congregation grudgingly agree to retain me.

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