What has happened with the Anglicans can happen with the OPC, the Catholics, etc. -- we need to study and learn from their mistakes, not just gloat and/or say "it can't happen to us"
And what about muslims ?
Just wondering !
One example? The Jubilee Church:
http://jubileechurchlondon.org/
Others:
http://www.fpchurch.org.uk/location/london-congregation/
https://mortonbaptist.org/
Just shameful how people in the West don’t value their Christian religious heritage and have tossed it out with the garbage in order to pursue laxer sexual moral standards, essentially.
Seems to me there have always been people "going through the motions" that never had any faith at all, all around us. If we had the same tools during the 1700s, we probably would have found the same proportions or worse among everyone at that time.
We simply have to a better job of getting the faith to everyone.
It is worse that it sounds. Only 1.4% attend Anglican services weekly. This is 1/3 the number in the early sixties.
(http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/religion/12095251/Church-of-England-attendance-plunges-to-record-low.html)
The Church of England has been anything BUT Christian for more than a generation. I’m not surprised by these numbers at all. I’m praying that those who have had the good sense to cut ties with that horrible institution find their way to Christ through real Christian churches.
I’m not surprised by these numbers, either. Christianity has multiple problems over a range of issues. I would include near the top, the Church’s failure to deal meaningfully with the increasing credence given by modern cultures to so-called “scientific reason.” Scientific reason is turned to by a large segment of society for answers to everything from abortion to global warming.
Jesus and his teachings are not used to address issues at all, unless they align with the current political needs of folks.
Of course this is wrong thinking and leads to wrong actions, but it is happening and is having devastating effects on the lives of individuals and our Western nations.
That’s just one problem Christianity faces. And THAT’S just my personal opinion.
I’m not surprised by these numbers, either. Christianity has multiple problems over a range of issues. I would include near the top, the Church’s failure to deal meaningfully with the increasing credence given by modern cultures to so-called “scientific reason.” Scientific reason is turned to by a large segment of society for answers to everything from abortion to global warming.
Jesus and his teachings are not used to address issues at all, unless they align with the current political needs of folks.
Of course this is wrong thinking and leads to wrong actions, but it is happening and is having devastating effects on the lives of individuals and our Western nations.
That’s just one problem Christianity faces. And THAT’S just my personal opinion.
We need the Lord to raise a new generation of Celtic Christians to save Europe again.
It is not just a situation of “no religion vs. Christians”, because the Christian religions in the UK are weak and corrupt.
The semi-official religion in England is the Church of England, that is nominally Anglican, but in fact is nothing like the vibrant, growing and strong-in-their-faith Anglicans of Africa, the largest portion of that faith.
So why should Christians want anything to do with a religion that has lost its faith and spirit, lost its belief, lost its will to live? A sect whose former leader claimed to also be a Druid priest? A sect that embraces perversion in its clergy, at least some of whom even question the divinity of Jesus?
Certainly there are other Christian denominations in England and Wales, but how many of them are strong and steadfast in their faith, unwilling to soften their beliefs to fit the tepid and uncertain culture in which they practice?