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Speak the truth in love. Eph 4:15

[SouthernFreebird]

“General Convention exacerbated what was already underway,” he said. “Something is happening in our culture that is affecting us more than others. There is not a lot here that is encouraging.”

Hmmmmmmmmmmm what could it be.....?

[Clock King]

The Rightalk program, Hoist the Black Flag, had a good commentary on this today. Those in charge of the Church are so left-leaning, introducing homosexuals into the clery, and even going so far (I hadn't heard this before), as to declaring that Jesus may not have been Divine. Like Ace said, "Isn't that like, the whole point of the faith? If you don't believe it, what are you doing there?" What's worse is that they are unable to see what they doing.

"But Jesus was saying, "Father, forgive them; for they do not know what they are doing." Luke 23:34

[PAR35]

Most denominations in the United States are also reporting declining attendance, he said.

If I were playing poker with that boy, I'd call.

Membership growth 1965 - 2003

Southern Baptist - 52.6%
Roman Catholic - 45.4%
Assemblies of God - 377.1%

Presbyterian Church in America about 10% growth in the last 5 years.

[Hebrews 11:6]

What would be even more interesting would be to study the nature of the ingress and egress. The overall one-year decline was 3.4%, but how many who really left because of the church's liberalism were counterbalanced by incoming liberals? In other words, what is the true percentage of theological exodus?

[bobjam]

Some other useful facts:

The average ECUSA parish gets only 77 a Sunday.
The largest ECUSA parish in America (Christ Church in Plano, TX) gets just under 2100 a Sunday. There are several dozen churches of denominations ranging from Assembly of God to Roman Catholic in my city alone that top 2100 a Sunday. And you guessed it, Christ Church is highly evangelical.
The average active Episcopalian is over 55.