Leader, God did not call you to provide a haven for those who pretend to follow Christ.
You don’t do that?
Please think more carefully. If you have members on the rolls of your church who show by their behavior that they don’t love Christ, the family of God, and God’s word enough to even attend, you are surely complicit in making them feel comfortable and approved in their supposed status. For many of our churches only 35-40 percent of the members even bother to come on a given Sunday (shut-ins and firemen, etc., excepted). For the larger churches, this can sink to 15 or 20 percent. If this is true of your church, are you not aiding the false convert’s deception? Do you really want to do that?
If this doesn’t concern you, and if you are not at least working diligently toward solving this problem, then what can be said about your leadership and the true health of the church?
Be thinking now about how you will proceed. Your church will not be healthy until more people are in attendance than are in membership. And this is not to say that attending is the sum total of what it means to be a Christian — please don’t misunderstand — but it says a lot about the heart and the love of Christ and the church, for which he died.
Pastors, sorting this out is what it means to lead as a man of God.
The article below may help.
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