CNLP 736 | Why Dying Churches Need to Give Growing Churches Their Buildings: The Argument and The Main Objections

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

Carey Nieuwhof

Management, Business

4.8 • 2.2K Ratings

🗓️ 19 June 2025

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Summary

Fact: Many churches with facilities and money lack people, while churches with people often lack facilities and funds. In this episode, Carey Nieuwhof argues why dying churches should transfer their buildings to growing congregations.

He addresses the 5 key objections to this transition and demonstrates why overcoming these barriers creates a win for everyone involved in advancing the Kingdom's mission.

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0:00.0	The Art of Leadership Network.
0:03.0	And we hugged and we cried.
0:06.2	And I said,
0:08.7	okay, not expecting this.
0:12.8	I said, aren't you glad?
0:15.1	We had the faith that God was going to do something.
0:17.4	I mean, could you imagine that one day?
0:19.2	Our biggest problem right now at Canexis is we're out of space. We're putting chairs in the aisles, adding services. We're out of
0:24.7	space. Can you believe that God did this? See that? Yeah, the emotional attachment to the
0:29.9	buildings. How about emotional attachment to the kingdom? Welcome to the Keri Newhoff Leadership Podcast.
0:38.8	So glad you joined us.
0:39.7	I hope our time together today helps you thrive in life and leadership.
0:42.8	And guess what?
0:43.7	We are experimenting in 2025.
0:46.4	We've been doing this for 10 years.
0:48.1	And so, but once a month I try something different.
0:50.7	Did some Pick Your Brain episodes, have done some solo episodes.
1:02.0	Earlier this year, I posted a video on YouTube called The Shocking Truth About Dying Churches and Why They Won't Donate Their Buildings. And man, did it ever get a reaction?
1:05.0	And this is a really important topic to me, and I thought, I'm going to address this on my podcast.
1:10.0	So what I'm going to do, I'm going to walk this on my podcast. So what I'm going to do,
1:11.0	I'm going to walk you through my argument, and then I'm going to walk you through viewers' responses
1:16.5	to them. And this is going to do two things. Number one, I really want this to be a, well, a treatment
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