1988 Win Arn, church growth pioneer, shocked the American church world with the following statement. “Today, of the approximately 350,000 churches in America, four out of five are either plateaued or declining. . . . Many churches begin a plateau or slow decline about their fifteenth to eighteenth year. 80–85 [percent] are on the down-side of this cycle.”
Since at least1988 the majority of churches had plateaued and were in decline
