Risk vs. Comfort and Challenge vs. Security

Just a few reasons why a church to might not ever grow, may never hold mature members, and always remain stagnant, sort of doing one fruitless thing after another:

1. It's not in the budget. It is too expensive.
2. I need more time to think and pray about it.
3. I know a church who tried it and it didn't work.
4. Some of our best tithers would oppose that. There are people who will stop tithing if we do it.
   
5. It would never produce any tithers.
6. It's a good idea, but several years ahead of its time.
7. The older people (or younger) would never accept it.
8. We've done OK all these years without it.
9. We couldn't do it until we. . .
10. The timing's just not right. Let's put it on hold for a while.
11. I need to see more details before I can vote on it.
12. That's what we hired the pastor for.
13. It doesn't fit the culture of the people around here.
14. Our people are already overworked and stretched too thin.
15. That would be too radical a change at one time.
16. Our church is too small (or too big) to try that.
17. In a larger city that might work. Perhaps it would work in a rural area, but not here.
18. Our facilities just couldn't handle it.
19. Something just doesn't feel right to me.
20. Everybody's not on board yet.
21. That’s not the Baptist’s way.
22. Our people have been asked to give too often.
23. The woman's group would be against it.
24. This could be divisive. I don't see any long term value in it.