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Church ‘membership’ below 50% for first time, 'thousands' of churches close yearly
Washington Examiner ^ | 29 March A.D. 2021 | Paul Bedlard

Posted on 03/29/2021 12:03:45 PM PDT by lightman

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To: lightman

Apostate churches SHOULD shut down permanently.


41 posted on 03/29/2021 3:21:55 PM PDT by Old Yeller
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To: TornadoAlley3

There are plenty of churches preaching they are not okay with that.


42 posted on 03/29/2021 3:36:36 PM PDT by momincombatboots (Ephesians 6... who you are really at war with)
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To: SamuraiScot

I keep emphasizing in my church to drop the praise band and emphasis on emotionalism. Focus on the Bible and explain it in depth. Stand for something and don’t waiver. Put some content into the service that will challenge people to think not just get tingles in reaction to a rock beat.


43 posted on 03/29/2021 3:54:52 PM PDT by PA Presbyterian (Never Surrender!)
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To: SaveFerris

..church membership is fixin’ to get alot smaller—any second...


44 posted on 03/29/2021 4:11:17 PM PDT by WalterSkinner (In Memory of My Father, WWII Vet 2007 , and Mom, the Best Mother Ever 2019)
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To: WalterSkinner
Amen to that my brother. Maranatha! (as someone correctly noted, it will be a LOT fast than this - but the pic is cool)

[Maranatha!]

Even so, come Lord Jesus!!


45 posted on 03/29/2021 4:23:13 PM PDT by SaveFerris (Luke 17:28 ... as it was in the days of Lot; they did eat, they drank, they bought, they sold ......)
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To: SaveFerris

👍 AMEN !


46 posted on 03/29/2021 4:25:43 PM PDT by WalterSkinner (In Memory of My Father, WWII Vet 2007 , and Mom, the Best Mother Ever 2019)
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To: madprof98

The Catholic Church has been dying and now with a pathetic Pope and the lawsuits sucking everything out of it,the death is progressing faster. I also see so many of these super liberal churches. The left pretty much has destroyed Christianity at the higher organized levels.


47 posted on 03/29/2021 4:28:43 PM PDT by shanover (...To disarm the people is the best and most effectual way to enslave them.-S.Adams)
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To: Mr. Blond
My membership isn’t with a church.

My membership isn’t with a church.either

Me right there. We are the church and I go to fellowship where the spirit leads, home studies, and good Christians brethren. I fit the Mark9:38-41 story these days

Will refuse masks and boundaries.

48 posted on 03/29/2021 4:42:37 PM PDT by Karliner (Heb 4:12 Rom 8:28 Rev 3, "...This is the end of the beginning." Churchill)
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To: IrishBrigade

Unrelated to the story, but I’ll be in Andreas, Tamaqua, and New Ringgold tomorrow.


49 posted on 03/29/2021 5:13:33 PM PDT by EEGator
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To: Think free or die

We left one Church when the long respected Sr. Paster retired and a woman paster took over. Didnt sit right, and it’s not sexist, just not biblical


50 posted on 03/29/2021 5:31:15 PM PDT by reviled downesdad (Some of the lost will never believe the Truth.)
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To: Think free or die

Give this a try:

https://anglicanchurch.net/


51 posted on 03/29/2021 5:31:55 PM PDT by lightman (I am a binary Trinitarian. Deal with it!)
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To: lightman

Will do - there are a few churches in our area.


52 posted on 03/29/2021 9:57:08 PM PDT by Think free or die
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To: SamuraiScot

Latin Mass attendees are like Dungeons and Dragons devotees who reproduce, and there is no guaranteeing that their kids will share mommy and daddy’s hobby. We shall see.


53 posted on 03/30/2021 9:14:16 PM PDT by Clemenza
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To: Clemenza
Latin Mass attendees are like Dungeons and Dragons devotees who reproduce, and there is no guaranteeing that their kids will share mommy and daddy’s hobby. We shall see.

At this point, your friends would appear to represent a skewed sample. Spend some time among college kids.

I have five kids--who have all picked up the hobby without turning up their nose at a reverent Novus Ordo Mass. Four are adults, the eldest married with two kids so far, the next two engaged to lively, like-minded Catholics.

Their (many) friends are on a similar track. There's been a real culture shift out there.

54 posted on 03/31/2021 2:21:29 AM PDT by SamuraiScot
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To: lightman

Happy Easter


55 posted on 04/04/2021 5:53:16 AM PDT by PGalt (past peak civilization?)
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