My own church loses about five members a week through the obituary column.
Millenials are not replacing them.
Has your church done anything to reach out to them?
I’m not talking rock music or trying to be hip. I mean actually going out and talking with them.
It is amazing how few people know the Gospel message today.
One would have to judge their own religion, but the wheels have completely fallen off almost all religions. One of the few exceptions is Islam––far more of an ideology than a religion. Nevertheless, the abandonment of God is at the heart of the problem.
Speaking for my own religion, the Catholic Church, for us the destruction “officially” began with the Modernist takeover during the Second Vatican Council (1962-65). In truth, though, the Modernist movement actually began to re-emerge after the death of St Pope Pius XII in 1914. Under his leadership, Modernism had been so completely suppressed that most Catholics at that time believed it was destroyed.
The three pre-Conciliar popes that followed St Pius X (Benedict XV, Pius XI and Pius XII) were all decent men but spiritually weak. They allowed the heresy of Modernism to re-establish a foothold and then grow in strength to the point that they elected their first Modernist pope, John XXIII in 1958. He called the Council almost immediately, and within a matter of a few years the spiritual carnage began in earnest. All those popes that followed were and are Modernists.
Traditional Catholics. like myself, believe that the only answer to the current crisis is for the modern bishops to acknowledge their errors and return to the singular mission of the Church, which is to lead all mankind to salvation. That mission has long been abandoned by these disgraceful men who are more concerned with the re-distribution of wealth and complying with the politically correct and diabolical goals of the secular media, such providing support for illegal immigration and the globalization of the nations.
Whether a reform on the part of the bishops is simply Pollyannaish thinking on our part remains to be seen, but there is little doubt that each and every one of these modern bishops will one day pay an enormous price when they stand before Jesus Christ on their day of judgment. To whom much is given, much is expected. So while it doesn’t look good from a worldly point of view, we do know that we can and should still pray for a miracle, and know that nothing is impossible for God.