How to Stop a Church from Closing Down is a post from a church planter (Pastor David Cox) about stopping a church from closing down and terminating its services.
Problems
Ministerial Covetousness
I have written a new tract on the Christian and his money, which I highly recommend that everyone read. In this tract, I examine what the Bible says the Christian’s attitude towards money should be.
Don’t Demonize your people
I have been a pastor for some 36 years now. Most of those years have been on the mission field, in a church that I worked starting (church planter). I have seen a lot of things both in my own work and in the many hundreds of churches that we have visited while on deputation. Let me explain what I mean by this post title (“Don’t demonize your people.”). Most commonly the pastor (and/or his wife) have problems with individuals in the congregation. This is ALWAYS going to happen. Want a perfect church? Run everybody off, and then resign, and that is about as close as you will get.
The Death of a Church (Closure)
The Death of a Church (Closure) Examination of a church closure, why it should, why it shouldn’t, explaining why it happens when it shouldn’t.
Let me make a highly charged statement. Every single church in the world should shut down completely. Read on to follow my logic, and then I have comments to make about the issue of church closures.
Dealing with Problem People
Dealing with Problem People looks at problem people from a pastor’s point of view. Much more than solutions to these people, we need to adjust our attitude towards them.