Barriers to Growth

5 Things Your Church Should Stop Saying

By Jennifer Tribble Language is a huge part of your church culture.  If you use insider religious language you communicate to the unchurched in a subtle but very powerful way that they aren’t one of us and they don’t really belong here.   If, on the other hand,  you’re trying to bring in unchurched visitors you …

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6 Reasons Your Sanctuary is Smaller Than You Think

The most common reason why high quality churches still aren’t growing is that they are physically full and don’t know it. Part of the problem is that everybody over-estimates the size of their sanctuary – and I mean everybody.  Big churches, small churches, city churches, and town churches all overestimate their seating capacity.  There are …

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2 Absolute Barriers to Church Growth and Why You’re Unaware of Them

There are many incremental barriers to church growth – problems that add up over time to drive people away. Examples include a poor sound system, out-dated decor, dirty restrooms, lack of needed programing, poor preaching, etc. These are things that, by themselves, will merely slow growth down, but won’t start to kill your church unless …

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