I'm very glad U started this thread Rhoni. I am looking forward to reading it, and trying to soak up ideas to retain folks. I believe that many churches have fallen short in this area. I feel it is because of a combination of reasons of which I am the 1st to admit guiltiness and shortcoming. Too slothful when it comes to 1 on 1 evangelism, and not enuff time spent in the lives/meeting the needs of new converts. I also feel like the churches have preached
Acts 2:38, standards, shoutdown, and
Deut. 6:4 so much (in my "world") that "we" havent taken enough time to train people of the "covenant relationship" with Christ. For better and worse.....thru all. We need 1 God, Jesus name baptism, and Holyghost, modesty etc.. but, We also need people to know more than that, like what is covenant relationship w/ Christ. Heb.6 going on into perfection... I'm out of time to post right now, just wanted to let U know I'm looking forward to learning from this thread. Thanks for starting it.