It hurts when people leave our churches . . . people who have been around for a long time; people who are relatively new; people who have experienced life change at our churches.
People leave church! It’s a reality of ministry. I live with it and so do you.
But can we do more than just live with the fact that people do leave?
For the last decade or so, I’ve been dealing with the personal pain of people leaving, the spiritual consequences of people leaving and the “failure feelings” that come when someone leaves.
So I started to humbly ask myself, ask our leaders and ask God, “Why are people leaving?”
And what I discovered amazed me.
I learned that about 95% of the time, people leave for SIX MAJOR reasons.
That was good news to me. I could identify and deal with six reasons (not six hundred – that would be too many – but six seemed manageable).
I began to teach these six reasons to the hundreds of pastors that I have coached and found over and over these reasons were behind 95% of the ‘losses’ in their church too.
But then I took it a step further, I asked: What can I do about it?
With God’s help and insight, I discovered that there were practical steps I could take to either prevent people from leaving before they walked out the door or steps I could take to keep the door open for their return.
Out of this learning process in my own ministry and now having tested these ideas with hundreds of my coaching alumni, I’m proud to present to you a BRAND NEW RESOURCE.
This NEW Resource is entitled:
WHY PEOPLE LEAVE CHURCH (AND WHAT TO DO ABOUT IT)
In this 3-CD, one-hundred-twenty-two minute resource, I describe in detail the six major reasons people leave.
But I go beyond just description . . . this resource focuses on prescription too.
Because I also show you six biblical ACTIONS YOU CAN TAKE to either keep people from leaving in the first place or make sure the door remains open for their return.
I think this resource will be PERSONALLY VALUABLE AND BENEFICIAL to you for at least three reasons:
- This resource will give you peace of mind in knowing exactly why people are leaving your church (just identifying the reasons helped me feel like less of a failure).
- This NEW resource will give you ‘something to do’ that will help you keep hope alive while dealing with the pain of loss. Instead of feeling helpless and hopeless, you will now have some actions you can take. I will give you a track to run on.
- This resource will give you new insight as to why people REALLY leave (hint: the reason they tell you ain’t the actual reason they leave. No doubt you felt this way in your heart but I’ll prove it to you and spell it out for you in the resource).
Here’s what I’m trying to say: this resource isn’t just valuable for the material I cover, it’s valuable for the PEACE OF MIND it will bring to you. Does that make sense?
Listen, I’ll not only give you the specific nuts and bolts action steps that you’ve come to expect from me, this resource will relieve your heavy heart and help you gain a new healthy perspective.
How do I know this? Because that’s what putting the resource together and implementing it at The Journey Church did for me.
As I applied the actions steps, we begin to keep more people (yeah!).
But yet others would still leave from time to time. While I hated to see them go, it was no longer a heartbreaker for me because I knew two things: 1) The real reason they were leaving was different then what the told me and 2) that if I kept the door open for the reasons I discuss in the resource, they were more likely to return.
Frankly, I never planned for the material I share in this resource to be ‘public.’
I thought it would be material used only in my high-commitment coaching networks.
But as I taught the material to my networks, they encouraged me to put it together so that all pastors in the Church Leader Insights family could benefit.
Here’s the direct link if you want to pick it up now, or keep reading for more:
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Here’s just a sample of what I will teach you in this resource:
- The TOP SIX REASONS people leave your church, and what you can do about it.
- How THREE of these reasons are impossible to correct after the fact – but you can prevent them before they happen.
- How THREE of these reasons give you an opportunity for greater ministry.
- How to reduce the impact of all SIX reasons people leave (you can’t eliminate them, but you can minimize them).
- The BIGGEST MISTAKE you can make when someone leaves your church (there are RIGHT things to do when some one leaves and WRONG things, I’ll show you which ones work).
- How to make sure you don’t lose FOCUS when someone leaves.
- What growing churches do differently when it comes to people leaving church.
- What ONE THING will kill the chances of someone ever returning (its not what you thing – in fact, I bet you are doing it in some form or another in your church right now and its hurting you without you even knowing it).
- Why you should NEVER chase someone who leaves (really! I’ll show you why).
Plus so much more. It’s a packed resource!
In fact, I know this will be such a help to you that I’m offering a FULL 365 DAY NO-QUESTIONS-ASKED FULL SATISFACTION RETURN-FOR-ANY-REASON guarantee.
Pick up the resource, listen to it as much as you want and, for any reason, if you aren’t happy, return it for a 100% complete prompt courteous refund.
OK, so are you ready to pick up the resource, follow this link right now:
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If you prefer to order by phone, give us a call today at 1-800-264-5129.
Your Partner in Ministry,
P.S. After I finished the ‘formal’ one-hundred-twenty-two minute presentation you’ll find in this resource, my team kept the recorders running and hit me with six additional ‘tough questions’ about why people leave church.
Because my answers were unscripted and straight from my heart (which I had just laid bare for the previous recording) I had to seriously consider what to do with this extra material.
My pain is your gain because we took the extra question and answer time and added it as a BONUS to the CDs or Downloads (over thirty additional minutes of bonus material).
This bonus material is in addition to a leaders guide, listeners guide and full transcript on the resource CD.
I want to do everything I can to help you with this key issue.
Once again, here’s the link to pick up the CDs or Download Now:
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