Category Archives: Church Trends

Actually, I have one more trend. This is from the Washington Post, by way of Ben Witherington’s blog. After statistically analyzing the survey responses of over 2,200 congregants and the clergy members who serve them, we came to a counterintuitive … Continue reading →

Completing my highly derivative series on church trends are observations from Chris Martin. Trend 18+ are a series of trends Martin found in the recently released Gallup survey. 68% of ALL U.S. adults use Facebook. 56% of 18-29-year-olds use auto-deleting … Continue reading →

Continuing my highly derivative series on church trends, the next six are from Carey Nieuwhof’s post 6 Disruptive Church Trends That Will Rule 2017. Trend 17: Engagement Will Become The New Attendance As I outlined here, wise leaders have stopped trying to attract people … Continue reading →

Continuing my highly derivative series on church trends, the next six are from Carey Nieuwhof’s post 6 Disruptive Church Trends That Will Rule 2017. Trend 16: Anonymity Will Continue To Give Way To Community Some people head into your church wanting to be … Continue reading →

Continuing my highly derivative series on church trends, the next six are from Carey Nieuwhof’s post 6 Disruptive Church Trends That Will Rule 2017. Trend 15: Preaching Will Fuse Both The Head And The Heart I believe the most effective preachers in … Continue reading →

Continuing my highly derivative series on church trends, the next six are from Carey Nieuwhof’s post 6 Disruptive Church Trends That Will Rule 2017. Trend 14: Preachers Who Can’t Speak To The Unchurched Will Preach To A Shrinking Crowd Just because your church … Continue reading →

Continuing my highly derivative series on church trends, the next six are from Carey Nieuwhof’s post 6 Disruptive Church Trends That Will Rule 2017. Trend 13: Cool Church Will Morph [H]aving great preaching, a great band, and even lights and haze is less … Continue reading →

Continuing my highly derivative series on church trends, the next six are from Carey Nieuwhof’s post 6 Disruptive Church Trends That Will Rule 2017. Trend 12: Consumer Christianity Will Die Faster Than Ever Really? Nieuwhof explains, Our faith calls us to live for … Continue reading →

Continuing my highly derivative series on church trends, the next 10 are from an article by church growth consultant and author Thom Rainer. (This is last one from Rainer.) Trend 11: The remarkable shift toward continual learning. Our research is … Continue reading →

Continuing my highly derivative series on church trends, the next 10 are from an article by church growth consultant and author Thom Rainer: Trend 9: Worship center downsizing becomes normative. This trend was easy to predict. The Millennials are leading the … Continue reading →