Comments on: Dan Kimball is Wrong About Church Buildings http://leavethebuildingblog.com/2009/12/18/dan-kimball-is-wrong-about-church-buildings/ From the Leaders of The Well Tue, 10 Jan 2012 22:06:34 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.com/ By: Ken Eastburn http://leavethebuildingblog.com/2009/12/18/dan-kimball-is-wrong-about-church-buildings/#comment-298 Mon, 21 Dec 2009 15:39:21 +0000 http://leavethebuildingblog.com/?p=263#comment-298 Thanks for sharing the story. I like the way he ended it…even if our churches close, the Church will never fail.

]]> By: MDSF http://leavethebuildingblog.com/2009/12/18/dan-kimball-is-wrong-about-church-buildings/#comment-294 Sun, 20 Dec 2009 19:51:38 +0000 http://leavethebuildingblog.com/?p=263#comment-294 I would encourage readers to visit this recent post on Pooped Pastors regarding church bankruptcies:

http://www.poopedpastors.com/blogs/shutting-the-doors-for-good/

The handful of church bankruptcies I’ve read about over the course of the last two years all share a common theme: the church leadership wanted a building and took on more debt per person than the church could bear.

The story related by “Pastor Pete” is about a helpfully anonymous “Dirk” who took over the pastorate of a twenty-year-old church running about a hundred people, but (conveniently) a building program already underway. The church (again, conveniently) grew to 130 but giving dropped off and after the church missed a few payments the bank called the loan and the church closed, not because there was no church, but because there was no building.

Because it’s the Pooped Pastors weblog, there’s no hint that “Dirk” was at fault, of course.

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