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For over a quarter of a century the problem of losing church members has progressively increased. Today the situation is so bad that less than one-third of the members in some churches attend worship services. Church leaders are crying for help.In an effort to help church leaders, the Billy Graham School of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary conducted a massive research project involving...

Although expository preaching was rated the highest single factor in our earlier study on evangelistic churches, we were surprised to discover that it was strongly correlated to closing the back door. Indeed in this study, expository preaching was second only to Sunday School among the methodologies that are effective in assimilation. We defined expository preaching as “primarily explanation or commentary on the biblical text; expounds the central idea of the text; often includes preaching through