When Church Stops Working
A Future for Your Congregation beyond More Money, Programs, and Innovation

The odds are fairly strong you've been in a church that stopped working, though certainly there are exceptions. I thought about these experiences often while reading "When Church Stops Working: A Future for Your Congregation Beyond More Money, Programs, and Innovation" by Andrew Root and Blair D. Be......more

It is common knowledge that religious institutions have been in decline for many years. Where once it was liberal mainline churches that suffered, now even conservative ones (SBC) are experiencing significant decline. It's not just among Christians, as other faith communities are experiencing challe......more

There are a lot of theories to explain the decline in participation in mainline christian churches. One common idea is that struggling churches just aren’t doing enough to keep their memberships actively involved. Today we see any number of activities that compete with the church for our time and ch......more

I've quickly become a fan of Andrew Root's work and believe him to be one of the few voices I've read in recent years who seem to capture a lot of the crisis unfolding in the Western church. This work is an attempt to make some of his previous work more accessible for lay readers and, by and large,......more

For many church leaders today, there’s a lot of anxiety about the decline of church attendance, church finances, and a general worry that the church is going to cease to exist at some point. The usual books on this, though, all advocate secular, business-oriented approaches to solving these problems......more