What do you think happened to the large churches of the past?

[Sherryh]

My thoughts are they didn't plan for the future.
Did they stop preaching salvation messages ?
Emmanuel Baptist in Pontiac, Michigan is a empty parking lot today.
I don't think bigger is better .
AV Henderson church outside of Detroit, Michigan what happened to it
also Chattanooga, Tenn. Any thoughts?

 

[FSSL]

Some of them die off because they were popular due to personalities.

IFB-style churches in the Pontiac, Michigan area typically about 100 members, each... if that, anymore.

One historian noted that the probem with the 1970s style of fundamentalism is that growth was primarily through shifting memberships rather than new believer growth.

 

[Sherryh]

Some of them die off because they were popular due to personalities.

IFB-style churches in the Pontiac, Michigan area typically about 100 members, each... if that, anymore.

One historian noted that the probem with the 1970s style of fundamentalism is that growth was primarily through shifting memberships rather than new believer growth.

You are correct its going to happen to Hammond and others. I'm wondering about my own home church at Rochester Hills it should seat a 1,000 people. It was filled once with an Evangelist speaking .