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The Top Ten Reasons People Switch Churches:

1. The church was not helping me to develop spiritually. (28%)

2. I did not feel engaged or involved in meaningful church work (20%)

3. Church members were judgmental of others (18%)

4. pastor was not a good preacher (16%)

5. Too many changes (16%)

6. Members seemed hypocritical (15%)

7. Church didn’t seem to be a place where God was at work (14%)

8. Church was run by a clique that discouraged involvement (14%)

9. Pastor was judgmental of others (14%)

10. Pastor seemed hypocritical (13%)

More people switch churches because their old church wasn't meeting their spiritual needs than any other reason, a recent survey found. The latest findings from the LifeWay Research area of LifeWay Christian Resources give the top 10 reasons adults switch churches. This study builds on LifeWay Research's 2006 study of the formerly churched, which explored the reasons adults stop going to church. The current findings explain why people change churches and how these situations differ from those in which the individual does not resume church attendance at all.

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