It sounds like churches need to always be recruiting new members.
To look at it does any business would look at their customer base, there’s always going to be some erosion of the customer base.
And tight end with this would be the related issue of donations and offerings to support the church.
RE: sounds like churches need to always be recruiting new members
That’s EXACTLY what Jesus told his disciples to do. Let’s reread the last three verses of the Gospel of Matthew, and the first nine verses of the book of Acts.