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Amen.
Geeze who would a thunk it. Think there's a message there that might get through the secularist Pharisees and Sagisees?
Preach true Christianity in England and get arrested for a hate crime..
Preach hate filled anti Christian anti semite Islam or Pro sodomite pedophile Pagan witchcraft and get your own tv special
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"The results of the year-long survey of 14,000 UK residents by the interdenominational Ecumenical Research Committee has been called ‘surprising’ by mainstream secular and Christian media. The overwhelming response is to call on churches “to robustly defend moral values with conviction and courage and cease being ‘silent’ and ‘lukewarm’ in the face of moral and social collapse.”
Even here in my neck of the woods--northern Illinois-- those churches with a reputation for taking the Gospel seriously are bursting at the seams with new members, while the old luke-warm mainline denominations mainly cater to the elderly who grew up in their churches and who couldn't possibly entertain the idea of going somewhere else...
If you stand for nothing, nothing will happen.
So the usual line that America is a more religous country than European countries may be false?
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Thanks for this post.
I only hope my former pastor in Phoenix
could see this.
The pews are not empty in Africa and China. In fact, there are no pews in China, because the churches meet in homes due to the communist government persecution of anyone who does not attend the "Three Self PAtriotic Movement" church, or the national bogus facade church.
Asia and Africa are leading Christianity today as Europe whithers, heaves and dies.
INTREP - ISCHABOD
Wow...This explains a LOT. What a great survey!
You can say that again! Same in the US! WOuldn't want to preach against homos or abortion..might offend some collection plate doners.
If the Brits disestablished the C of E things would begin to change.
This appears to refer mainly to the Anglican church. I wonder about other denominations (such as Jehovah's Witnesses, Baptists, Mormons and fundamentalists) which take a more moral approach.
For different reasons,I think each of you will find this thread very interesting and in one case,disturbing.
1 Cor 2:2 For I determined not to know any thing among you, save Jesus Christ, and him crucified.
When I was in London several years ago, I saw at least a few large, pro-Christian advertisements painted on the walls of the underground (subway). I forget what they said exactly, but they made a strong, positive impression on me. It seemed a strange thing to see amid the trains, grime and bustle of the secular world, but it also made me wonder about the people who paid to put them up. I thought, surely the Lord's people are still in this land.
I quit a local supposedly Christian church when a visiting minister showed up a month after the election sporting a black "Bush won" mourning ribbon on his lapel and began his "sermon" with a quote from Karl Marx. I wasn't the only one who quit.
The Catholics in my town are the only ones adhering to any kind of consistent theological, moral message. The rest are left-wing loons, some more pleasant, some more intelligent than others, but in the aggregate, loons. Could be that's why Catholicism is gaining converts and "reconverts" despite their problem with gay priests.
All churches need to get rid of leftist loons and gays in the clergy. Then they'd fill up again on Sundays.
Seconded.