If entrepreneurs ran the Church
by Peter Kerridge, Premier:
With UK Church attendance in steady decline, is it time for Christian leaders to take advice from people with a track record of running successful organisations? Peter Kerridge asks three Christian business people hard questions about the future of the faith
Those who argue the UK Church is in decline don’t need to look far in order to find worrying statistics. The proportion of the population attending Sunday services is only one-third of that in the early 1960s. Ninety-five per cent of people will not be found in church this Sunday.
Even dissenting voices who protest there are plenty of growing churches in the UK must admit such congregations are exceptions to the rule and the overall trend is downward.
We live in an increasingly secular society. In one survey, 51 per cent did not recognise that Christmas has anything to do with the Church. We’re also facing a crisis of discipleship – only five per cent of churchgoers have any devotional life outside of a Sunday service. Change is clearly needed.
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