Why do people stop going to church and how do you get them to come back?

Answer 1

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There are so many reasons people do go to church, and then so many reasons they may stop going. The link here is that if the reasons for having gone no longer exist, then people gradually stop going to church. A young person who went to church on parental orders or under peer pressure while at school may stop going on reachng a mature age. A young person may go to church merely to meet a person of the opposite sex, so when this is no longer necessary may stop going.

Some people are put off going to church because of what they keep hearing on the news about clerical sex abuse, and not only in the Roman Catholic Church. Others begin to think about the truth or otherwise of the Christian message, and decide that they simply can not believe that it really is true. There are many reasons for not going to church.

For each reason that people may stop going to church, you could present a sound counter-argument that would persuade them to return. Or you could provide unarguable evidence that God exists, as any such proof would mean that all rational people would attend church to worship God.