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.
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.