{"id":16119,"date":"2012-09-03T09:08:29","date_gmt":"2012-09-03T15:08:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/?p=16119"},"modified":"2012-09-03T09:08:29","modified_gmt":"2012-09-03T15:08:29","slug":"counting-sheep","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/praytellblog.com\/index.php\/2012\/09\/03\/counting-sheep\/","title":{"rendered":"Counting sheep"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you have 10 people coming to church every Sunday, that gives you an average attendance of 10.<\/p>\n<p>But if that changes so that you have 12 people on the rolls, of which three-fourths come every Sunday, your average attendance is now 9 \u2013 a ten-percent decrease.<\/p>\n<p>Or, looked at another way, the total number of people involved in your worship life has gone up 20%.<\/p>\n<p>That\u2019s pretty much the point made by Baptist George Bullard in \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.abpnews.com\/blog\/leadership\/think-attendance-in-your-church-declining-think-again-2012-08-31\/\" target=\"_blank\">Think attendance in your church is declining? 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