One hot summer night, the...
One hot summer night, the church council told the pastor that the giving was down,
attendance was down, and the good givers were dying off. The pastor explained that this
was a trend in many small town and rural congregations. Unhappy with this response, the
council demanded that the pastor go out and visit the inactive members and try to get
them to come back to church. The pastor insisted that statistically this did not work. His
arguments fell on the deaf ears of the church council.
He went out to visit an older couple who stopped attending Sunday worship once their