Dear Church, Your Silence is Why People are Leaving

The Beautiful Mess by John Pavlovitz Podcast · May 12, 2024 · 5m

Dear Church,

The Exodus has begun and it's not going to stop.

People are leaving you and they're probably not coming back.

I've been where you are and I know what's happening within you right now.

I know you're panicking, scrambling to understand it all, trying to somehow stop the bleeding; to reverse the swift and steady tide out the doors.

I know that you’re hiring consultants and holding emergency meetings and planning bold strategies and brainstorming creative solutions all designed to engineer a way to bring all the prodigals home, to "reach the young people," to grow numerically again…