2nd Hand - Gone But Not Forgotten: Church Leaving And Returning By Philip Richter And Leslie J Francis

2nd hand . Has pencil markings and personal details cut off page one. Otherwise great condition

Just one in every ten adults in England attends church on a Sunday and the churches largely stand empty. But for every adult in church, four other adults who used to attend regularly but have given up. As these statistics show, the biggest challenge facing churches in England today is not how to recuit new members, but the problem of church leavers. This is the challenge addressed by Gone but not forgotten.

In this new and important study, Philip Richter and Leslie Francis use the findings of in-depth interviews and telephone and postal surveys conducted among church leavers to assess 8 different theories about why people leave churches. Their conclusions indicate that some leavers are much more likely to return than others. The problem of church leavers needs to be reshaped into the opportunity of church returners.

Gone but not forgotten is offered to church leaders, who are looking for practical solutions to church leaving, to ordinary church members, who are puzzled about why some of their companions drop out, and to leavers themselves, who may find their own stories echoed and given a new perspective here.

paperback published 1998, 1999 edition

13.5x21.5cm 192 pages