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Is Your Church Losing New Believers?

By Rod Anderson, CP Cartoonist
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 Maybe you've seen it happen. A new believer joins a local church, and he is thrilled by his changed life. He shows up at every church event. He consumes knowledge of the Bible. But then something happens. The excited new believer slowly wanders away, and few people in the church notice.

Too often, this story resounds in churches that have a poor assimilation strategy. They might reach people for Christ, but they have no intentional plan to keep the people they reach. Their back door remains as open as their front door.

Listed below are some steps to evaluate your congregation's assimilation strategy. Taking these steps will require some work, but no church should be pleased when new believers disappear.

Read more at http://www.christianpost.com/news/6-ways-to-evaluate-your-churchs-strategy-to-assimilate-new-believers-113226/

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