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I get why some churches/pastors try their best to increase their membership.Why not have an active and an inactive membership roll. Go ahead tell folks how many members you have then tell them how many active members you have.Come on guys, just be honest.I see no difference in keeping a dead person on the membership roll than telling any other lie. As I understand it all liars will have their part in hell Recorded Sermons @ www.pastorwiley.com

some of our churches and states may not be as big as they say they are. That would mean salary and status reductions

The pastors salary has not been based on attendance I know since 1975. That's when I started pastoring Recorded Sermons @ www.pastorwiley.com

The pastor’s salary is based on what the church can pay him and still pay the bills

Gotcha. What is the incentive for pastors to inflate the membership roll, do you think?

The last church I pastored we systematically removed inactive(after sending out letters to last known address) 24 over a period of a year. Wait a minute... maybe that is why I couldn't get another church We also removed the dead members from the roll... they were inactive too after all

I mentioned in another post that we transferred from one church because we moved. Years later when we moved back the clerk said we were still members.Our pastor decided to clean the books a month or so before retirement.I liked the idea, however the timing looked a little strange. Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/

What he said. Most COG churches don’t have cemeteries, but I know for fact that many churches don’t purge rolls because it would cause great division regarding burial plots that were reserved. Some facts but mostly just my [email protected]/