What to do when people leave
It doesn’t matter how good your preach, how good you sing or how great the marketing materials we develop are…people are going to leave your church. So what should you do, ignore it? Panic?
I watch the stats of the blog, the other day 2 people dropped off. Now I don’t who they are or why they left…but honestly, it hurts when people leave. Here’s what I did and maybe it will give you something to think about next time someone leaves your church.
Was it something I said? I went back to the last few posts to check if I had maybe ruffled any feathers or maybe put too much emotion in a post…I evaluated the content.
Was it something I missed? I had to ask if I wasn’t giving something that was being looked for. I checked our analytics for search terms, looked at the health of our postings in terms of clicks…I monitored the health of the blog.
I then admitted that while I hope this blog will fill with people and comments (if you’re reading blogs please post now and then) I realized that sometimes people leave and sometimes there isn’t rhyme or reason…people simply leave. I also reminded myself that I am here for the whole and can’t tear down the building and reconstruct for one person.
What do you do when people leave? I do think it is important to assess now and then, but don’t panic…people will leave and new people will arrive.
Tags: attendance, church