{"id":249,"date":"2011-01-12T14:05:38","date_gmt":"2011-01-12T21:05:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/?p=249"},"modified":"2011-01-12T14:09:12","modified_gmt":"2011-01-12T21:09:12","slug":"why-visitors-dont-return-to-your-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/?p=249","title":{"rendered":"Why Visitors Don&#8217;t Return to Your Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read a post today at <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.evangelismcoach.org\/2011\/8-reasons-church-visitors-dont-come-back\/\">evangelismcoach.org<\/a><\/strong> on why visitors may not come back. Here are the reasons:<br \/>\n<strong><br \/>\n   1. Live out of town.<br \/>\n   2. Theological differences.<br \/>\n   3. Weekend off from their regular church.<br \/>\n   4. Comparison shopping while making a decision.<br \/>\n   5. Bad experience:  lost in the building, embarrassed, not welcomed, childcare problems.<br \/>\n   6. Didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like the worship experience (too long, too short, too weird).<br \/>\n   7. Nothing sacred \u00e2\u20ac\u201c no experience with God.<br \/>\n   8. No one welcomed them \u00e2\u20ac\u201c hospitality.<\/p>\n<p>The first three reasons are really beyond your control.  It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s good to welcome those church visitors and send them on their way with blessing.<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>For more information as to how they suggest you work at developing the other 5 within your control <a href=\"http:\/\/www.evangelismcoach.org\/2011\/8-reasons-church-visitors-dont-come-back\/\"><strong>click here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>What other reasons, in addition to those listed above have you faced? What did you do about them? Or, should I ask, how do you need help in addressing them? With Easter coming in 3 months, it&#8217;s not too early to be thinking of these things.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;d love to hear from you!<\/p>\n<p>Jeff<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I read a post today at evangelismcoach.org on why visitors may not come back. Here are the reasons: 1. Live out of town. 2. Theological differences. 3. Weekend off from their regular church. 4. Comparison shopping while making a decision. 5. Bad experience: lost in the building, embarrassed, not welcomed, childcare problems. 6. Didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t like [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-249","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-declinegrowth","category-easter"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=249"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/249\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=249"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=249"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/emergentbrethren.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=249"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}