Category: Church attendance
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The case against church membership covenants
In their book A Church Called Tov, Scot McKnight and Laura Barringer flag up the dangers of churches making people sign membership covenants in order to join. They point to how such contracts, apparently increasingly common in US churches, have been weaponised. They require people to raise concerns only in fixed ways and have been…
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How to fill churches at Christmas
Filling up churches at Christmas could be as simple as inviting people, research into church attendance has suggested. Over half of Americans who don’t go to church at Christmas would likely attend if they received a personal invitation. That’s according to a survey from Lifeway Research, part of the Southern Baptist Union. Lifeway found that…