top 5 ways people hear the gospel through the local church

Ed Stetzer and his team recently released one of their largest surveys on Americans response to people inviting them to church on a typical Sunday. See in the graph, the top 5 reasons or ways that people decide to attend a church. The problems seems to be that while people are most likely to attend when a friend or family member "invites them", those of us who know Christ and attend a local church are actually less and less likely to invite them. In other words, Stetzer's continues, we seem to be infatuated with evangelism but very few of us will actually take the time to invite. Even though just "inviting" is easier than actually sharing our own "God-change" story more and more people are even afraid to invite their friends or neighbors. Why do you think we have such a hard time inviting those around us? Too busy? Too afraid? Not trust church leadership to delivery on Sundays? -What do you think? How do you plan on inviting someone to a Easter service at Rejoice? -casey