I know all churches need a core membership, but I think we need to be more accepting of people who choose to search for the sake of growing their faith. Julie, love to hear your thoughts on this.

Has anybody in here read any of Joseph Girzone's books? He talks about denominations coming together for the sake of the church and communities. I love his books.

Traditional churches are going through rough times with membership right now. I think denominations should ban together more. We should consider combining youth groups, focus groups, single's ministries, etc. Instead of having 4 churches doing all this work for the few people that show up, perhaps each church could take a ministry and offer it to all churches. Then the ministries would be a little bigger and everyone wouldn't be stretched so thin. Any thoughts?