is the purpose of the church? what’s the mission of the church? i wonder what answers we would come up with to these questions.
it has been said that what we measure, we value. if we value the numbers of people in our churches, is that the right thing to value? or should we place value on something else?
there are many answers to why people leave church. i would guess that some of the answer lies in seeing people in church as a piece of data instead of a person.
this is not to say that all churches are guilty of this. i wonder what would happen if we looked at those 