If There Is No Crying Your Church Is Dying Relevant Children S Ministry Faithful to study the word. but the truth is, if you don't hear any crying coming from the nursery hallway, your church is dying. if something doesn't change, the church i mentioned above, will have to close their doors. because they haven't been reaching the next generation, the church will die off. for a church to thrive long term, it must be. And i have found the churches that are dying have a common issue. here it is they are not reaching the generation that is coming behind them. i was at a small dying church a few months ago and they had no children in their church. no babies, no elementary students and no teenagers. i thought to myself, "unless something changes, this church.
Churches That Are Dying Have This Common Issue Relevant Children S There were no element i was visiting a church not long ago and something was glaringly obvious.there were no sounds of a baby crying coming from the nursery. top of page. It seems that a large portion of american christianity is keen on having kids out of the main sunday service and this really troubles me now. i grew up without "children's church" and i think that was a good thing for me. though there are versions of "children's church" that have the kids only out for the sermon portion and i'm more okay with. 3. operate in light of your primary mission—making disciples. most church leaders know their top priority is making disciples—but most aren’t doing much about it. “i’ve never known a pastor who didn’t understand this,” moss says. “but about 90 percent of them have no strategy for how they will do it.”. That is one of the major differences between dying churches and growing churches. 2. lack of volunteers. another symptom of a dying church is a lack of volunteers. congregants don’t feel compelled to join the mission of the church to serve. in a plateaued or dying church, the same people are always doing all the work.
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