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Church growth and decline: a case study of the variable factors effecting membership ingression and egression of four churches

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MLA citation style (9th ed.)

Rhoads, Robert Irwin. Church Growth and Decline: a Case Study of the Variable Factors Effecting Membership Ingression and Egression of Four Churches. rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/4cb35c29-b8ef-44d5-b9e2-b63dfa7054b5?locale=de.

APA citation style (7th ed.)

R. R. Irwin. Church growth and decline: a case study of the variable factors effecting membership ingression and egression of four churches. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/4cb35c29-b8ef-44d5-b9e2-b63dfa7054b5?locale=de

Chicago citation style (CMOS 17, author-date)

Rhoads, Robert Irwin. Church Growth and Decline: a Case Study of the Variable Factors Effecting Membership Ingression and Egression of Four Churches. https://rim.ir.atla.com/concern/etds/4cb35c29-b8ef-44d5-b9e2-b63dfa7054b5?locale=de.

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  • This project is written for church leaders to use to determine those factors at work in their churches that stimulate or hinder growth. A committee of four or five people who are concerned about the mission of the church and who have a deep commitment and an enthusiastic spirit would make the survey, evaluate and act upon the results, and monitor future membership dynamics. In acting upon the results, the committee would evaluate the existing programs in light of their effectiveness and meaning for the membership. If the leadership of a local church follows the suggestions in this report, several important changes may be expected to be the result. First, the research (the actual inquiry, data collection, and analysis) will help a church to discover the reasons why people are joining and/or leaving the church; to identify attracting and repelling factors and activities of the church, areas of specific needs of the people the church is trying to reach and strategies of the church in responding to those needs, the population objective of the church’s outreach, and factors influential in attracting and retaining future members; and to provide some candid data for making policy decisions. Second, policy decisions informed by the research will help to change congregational activities, emphasis, programs, pastoral priorities and activities, the direction and objective of the church’s outreach, and will help to promote attitudinal changes. And, finally, the problem is that some churches will continue to decline no matter what is done. In those cases, almost all that can be promised is that leadership will understand the root causes of the decline.
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  • 12/18/2025

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