Posted on 04/18/2019 7:56:04 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
We had to expand our Catholic Church by 250 seats in an already 1500 seat church. We have 5 services and you will not get a seat if you are not 45 minutes early. Of course this is central Florida home to trump, Christians and American Patriots. 10 miles from the villages helps.
These stories are very deceptive. What is happening is the collapse of the Mainline (read Fakeline) churches that are falling apart after their abandonment of the Gospel and Jesus in favor of homosexuality, feminism, and leftwing ideology. The PCUSA, which I used to be a member of, has lost half of its membership since the 1990s. Why? Its embrace of homosexuality and homosexual “marriage.” Not to mention adultery and fornication.
You have 2 things happening. The nominal Mainline Christians just aren’t going any more. There’s no point, especially when you can have more fun watching sports on TV or just sleeping late on Sunday morning. Especially men, why do they want to be screeched at by some woman feminist “pastor” who can only talk about how bad men are and toxic masculinity?
The real Christians have abandoned the Mainline churches in favor of non-denominational churches, house fellowships and the like. These are actually growing fairly rapidly. A lot of these churches don’t keep “membership” in the way the Mainline denominations do.
The consequences of this trend are evident in the social decay, depravity, loss of respect for human life, the crime rates, the loss of simple patriotism or concern for country, the lawlessness, selfishness and ruthlessness that are now the norm. There was an overarching community narrative that ‘most’ people at least respected to some degree. That is gone now, and everyone does what is right in their own mind, regardless of anything or everyone else, continually (as in the times of the Judges in Israel). And no one even knows what that means anymore. Because nothing means anything. The libs have the country they wanted. It’s almost complete. What a damned shame.
This may help explain why a Catholic priest’s mention of “the body of Christ” this week somehow ended up being translated by the New York Times into “a statue of Jesus.”
And nobody ever has seriously questioned his lack of knowledge of the Christian faith or his obvious antagonism towards it while in office. (Just compare his proclamations regarding Christian holidays versus his ones on Muslim holidays. His Thanksgiving proclamations are the first ones in history where the President did not even mention giving thanks to God.)
Congratulations on your growing church.
Agreed. The enemy has breached the walls of faith and is in the congregation. Churches have left their first love, who should be Jesus, in favor of politics and ‘social justice’. The Gospel has been compromised, watered down, and marginalized. When the church joins the world, the world loses interest in it. When it stands apart and speaks the truth, it becomes interesting because it is refreshing to people who are spiritually starved. When the churches figure that out again and there are great preachers again, there will be revival.
Church membership is cruising along steadily for 60 years — and then, in 1998 or so, something happens.
This was the embrace of the homosexual agenda by the mainline churches, starting with the UCC and Episcopagans, and then spreading to the Churches of Christ, the liberal Lutherans and Presbyterians.
AllahPundit can barely contain his glee.
The church is dead
Christ lives. Forever. In the hearts of his men
It would benefit everyone (not just Christians) to reverse this. How do we begin to do that?
Start by following the church in the Book of Acts.
Thank you. You too.
Good idea.
Don’t thank me, thank God!
Collective religion e.g. Episcopalian, Catholic, etc. maybe falling off, bu independent and evangelical churches seem to be growing. At least that is what I see here in Maryland.
Did it.
“Why not join the church that Christ founded?”
Right. Because no Roman Catholic is disillusioned at the turn their churches have taken. [S] My RC friends complain about it all the time. The liberal pope. The non-traditional, non-Latin services. Acceptance of homosexuality. Sexual abuse by priests.
Our local Protestant churches here in Connecticut are very close to replacing crosses with rainbow flags at their altars. Some, like the UCC in my town, keep the cross but make sure there’s a homosexual doing the sermons.
Ours normally has 25 to 30 a year! It is also in an area where there are at least 8 or 10 Catholic churches in a 10-12 mile radius.
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