Living, breathing churches are always going to have more problems and tension, than churches that are dead. Churches can be alive and well without growth but they need programs and services. Here's a list of contrasts: 

• Live churches' expenses are always more than their income; dead churches don't need much money!
• Live churches have parking problems; Dead churches have empty spaces!
• Live churches may have some noisy children; Dead churches are quiet as a cemetery.
• Live churches keep changing their ways of doing things; Dead churches see no n…