Where is the church in its life cycle?
https://healthygrowingchurches.com/a-season-for-everything-life-cycle-of-a-church/
Assessing resources, energy, level of urgency, skills with conflict.
This is a customized assessment done by Renewing Church with congregations.
Some possible alternatives
- Do more of the same and hope for the best.
- Choose to be a Legacy Congregation http://www.ucc.org/legacychurch/
- Merger, Yoking, Sharing resources. One book that is helpful Better Together: Making Church Mergers Work
- Renewal One resource: Pathways to Renewal, Smith and Sellon, Alban Institute
- Discover new uses for your building. Here is an article that talks about this