Seven Reasons Why Church Worship Centers Will Get Smaller

Seven Reasons Why Church Worship Centers Will Get Smaller

1. Decreasing frequency of attendance among church members.
2. The growth of the “nones.”
3. The growth of the multi-site and multi-venue church.
4. The Millennials’ aversion to larger worship centers.
5. Governmental agencies are increasingly unfriendly to church building plans.
6. The shift in emphasis from the big worship event to an emphasis on groups.
7. The desire to spend more on ministry and less on facilities.

Some highlights from today’s Rainer Report:

• There has been a huge shift in attendance patterns of church goers over the past few decades.
• Millennials prefer smaller venues for corporate worship.
• Groups have become the new emphasis for churches instead of worship attendance alone.
• More and more churches are becoming debt averse leading them to not build large worship centers.