Close the Back Door

Closing the back door is about deepening the fellowship between the church and its congregation. A dynamic church is always bringing new people in – trying to move the seekers to visitors, visitors to attendees, and regular attendees to becoming "full time followers of Christ." But a church cannot know whether it is being successful if it does not measure people's progress.

To be successful, a church must not only track its attendance, but should also track the number of people who make a public profession of faith, begin to give, attend Bible studies, join one or more small groups, begin to volunteer, and finally learn to tithe. If a church cannot measure these things and encourage their progression, then any one of their attendees or members is more likely to, at any time, walk out the back door. The further along a person is on the assimilation funnel, the less likely they will cease to attend. Why? Because the person develops more affinity and personal ownership to that church.

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