Every Church is Different
Churches, like people, have their own personality. The personality make-up is due to a number of factors, including median age of the members, location, past experiences, and agreed upon goals.
There are marketing groups that call churches daily to tell them about a great new program that revolutionize their church. They will send out a huge packet of materials to be examined for thirty days at no charge, and if you don’t agree that it’s the greatest thing you’ve ever seen, you just package it all up, take it to the post office, pay the postage and send it back.
The thing is, every church is different. That’s the problem with programs. What works in one will not necessarily work in the next one. But, many churches keep purchasing another $600 packet of ideas to try and find that silver bullet.
It is true that the majority of churches are in decline instead of being in a pattern of growth. For some, the telemarketers program might be just the thing, but not for most. There is something that will work every time, and that is to have an absolute commitment on the part of church leadership to reach people, and center it all around the word of God , the worship of God, and obedience to God in ministry. There is an opportune ministry waiting for every church, if they can only discover it. It will likely not be the ministry that is going to bless the church down the road, but it will bless that church, because every church is different.
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