many churches, however, are not experiencing either growth or effectiveness in ministry. In fact, recent statistics show that numerical growth among evangelical churches, liberal churches and Catholic churches is in decline. Over the last twenty years, and in general since the mid-1930s, church membership has dropped.7 Likewise, church attendance has leveled to 40–42% of the population since 1939.8 The writer proposes that part of the problem in the loss of members and the stagnation of church attendance