I lived in the Mountains of NC at that time and I thought the song, I saw mama Kissing Santa Claus was a funny song. But in 1952 the Catholic Church banned the song as ungodly.Seems ALL BELIEFS and denominations become more liberal as time goes on. My daddy was sure that ‘Rock around the Clock’ was gonna send me (and a lotta kids) to hell! I reckon it coulda ________________Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/
Sent to quick. No one should ask why the new people are gone or what church their going to. I think maybe if you found out why their gone. You could talk to them and get them to come back. That’s the way I feel as a member of a church. Is my thinking wrong, please give me your input.
When you have a coup in a church, like you just described, it only hampers the growth of the church. There will always be problems in the congregation when you have people that think they “rule the roost”. Its a slippery slope my friend.
I have been in small churches, doing everything from teaching Sunday School to senior Pastor since 1986. The one thing I have learned in the last 30 years is that no church fits into the same box. The truth is if people will listen to and apply the word of God to their lives, and that goes for the Pastor too, then the windows of Heaven will open and miricals will happen, wheather it has 10 or 10,000 members. Also, it has nothing to do with small churches in the Church of God, it is true of all churches.
Levi, sometimes it’s not the members that are hampering the growth.
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In my experience over the past 40-50 years in ministry, I have always found the opposite of what Bro Price has stated. I have always found loving people who had a sincere desire to grow. It seems to me that most small churches have BAD pastors who are not called, or who are using the small church as a stepping stone to a larger church. These type of pastors are very political, and have no burden for the people. I recall a small church that I pastored for a year. We started with 6 people and grew into the 40s. Those few people raised the funds (thousands of dollars) to totally remodel their church. Next pastor let the CoG go to zero. He even sent his children to the AoG, did not even open the CoG on Sunday mornings, but he and his wife slept in. They just wanted a free place to live. It is what I call respectively “welfare preachers.” They are a disgrace to God Almighty and should be thrown out of the denomination. Lazy tails.