Where Have All Our People Gone? New Choices for Old Churches - Softcover

Carl S. Dudley

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0829803599 ISBN 13: 9780829803594

Publisher: Pilgrim Press, 1979

Synopsis

Membership statistics are not the only challenges facing the churches at this time; spiritual growth is at least as important. An impoverished world in need of bread and the Word claims the attention of the church. Studies in membership gains and losses are only one way to ask the larger questions of meaning, of the bonds between our beliefs and commitments, of the churches in which we serve, and of ourselves, personally before God. This book is divided into two sections: first, a statement of concerns; then, a discussion of responses. In the first part, the three chapters are devoted to the primary causes of dramatic losses in membership in mainline denominations. In the second part, four chapters discuss possible program responses, each progressively more specific. The final chapter offers a summary, review, and suggestions for using this material. [From the Introduction]

About this edition

• Publisher: Pilgrim Press
• Publication date: 1979
• ISBN 10: 0829803599
• ISBN 13: 9780829803594
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 136