Your church will die.....is dying!

[Tarheel Baptist]

http://geoffsurratt.com/blog/2012/05/01/your-church-will-die-part-4/

Interesting article....based on reality, in my experience.
What do you think?

 

[Izdaari]

Could be. If so, my church is maybe in its early adulthood. 10 years old, having grown from a house church, to 150 members with an average age of 27.

 

[Ransom]

Hm. Nothing like determinism applied to church history (in the short term).

 

[Tarheel Baptist]

Hm. Nothing like determinism applied to church history (in the short term).

I think he was speaking more to the history of a church as opposed to church history.

 

[Ransom]

I think he was speaking more to the history of a church as opposed to church history.

Which is what I meant as well.  I don't think you can map the life cycle of a church, any more than you can a company, or  a person.

 

[Tarheel Baptist]

I think he was speaking more to the history of a church as opposed to church history.

Which is what I meant as well.  I don't think you can map the life cycle of a church, any more than you can a company, or  a person.

I certainly wouldn't argue it difinitively, but there is evidence that the article has merit.
It's certainly not new, I remember something about the sociological cycle of a church during my seminary years which postulated something similar.

Institutions, and men ultimately deteriorate over time....which is one reason I thing church planting is vital!