Thank you Scully!
I was told and believed that. In 1978 a congregation I was in had 160 publishers. There was much wrongdoing on the part of certain elders several years later and around 10 or so years later Sunday meeting attendence had dropped down to around 32 or so! The congregation was deleted not long after and I felt vindicated! I believed Jehovah withdrew his spirit from that cong because of the wrongdoing by the elders.