In Search of the Unchurched: Why People Don't Join Your Congregation

Alan Klass offers a way to discuss the changes affecting mainline denominations and your congregation that is based on extensive research and discoveries about how congregations declining in membership are successfully responding. This book is designed to help you and your congregation explore the factual truths about what was and what is as a way to motivate discussion about what's working and what's not working in your congregation. You'll discover how congregations wrestled with the same issues you're facing (ministry to current members, ministry to the unchurched, worship, changing neighbourhoods, and more). Learn the factors that inspired and motivated congregations to make changes that reversed their decline. Clergy, lay leaders, judicatory executives, and seminary professors will find much needed practical help for discussing the paradigm shifts facing the church today.