Posted on 03/11/2009 6:47:32 AM PDT by raynearhood
We are on the verge within 10 years of a major collapse of evangelical Christianity. This breakdown will follow the deterioration of the mainline Protestant world and it will fundamentally alter the religious and cultural environment in the West.
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Why is this going to happen?
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2. We Evangelicals have failed to pass on to our young people an orthodox form of faith that can take root and survive the secular onslaught. Ironically, the billions of dollars we've spent on youth ministers, Christian music, publishing, and media has produced a culture of young Christians who know next to nothing about their own faith except how they feel about it. Our young people have deep beliefs about the culture war, but do not know why they should obey scripture, the essentials of theology, or the experience of spiritual discipline and community. Coming generations of Christians are going to be monumentally ignorant and unprepared for culture-wide pressures.
(Excerpt) Read more at csmonitor.com ...
Catholic? Not so much - he is a Southern Baptist (his wife is a newish convert to catholicism
That may be true in this case, however, they are many folks who consider themselves post-evangelical that have nothing to do with emergent. Evangelical has come to be a meaningless term, describing everything from Joel Osteen to Sarah Palin to Benny Hinn to Billy Graham.
Our church (SBC) was blessed with 4,000 new members last year.
Point me to where I say what you accuse me of.
Do you or the author have any experience with the non-Western evangelical church? His assumptions and “facts” need to be calibrated based on the word’s population and church attendance and not just North America and Europe.
This collapse will herald the arrival of an anti-Christian chapter of the post-Christian West. Intolerance of Christianity will rise to levels many of us have not believed possible in our lifetimes, and public policy will become hostile toward evangelical Christianity, seeing it as the opponent of the common good.
Quite correct about the future persecutions being planned by the Obamists.
Do you or the author have any experience with the non-Western evangelical church? His assumptions and “facts” need to be calibrated based on the word’s population and church attendance and not just North America and Europe.
Sorry for the double post.
African Methodist Episcopal Church
The African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church
Alliance of Baptists
American Baptist Churches in the USA
Diocese of the Armenian Church of America
Christian Church (Disciples of Christ)
Christian Methodist Episcopal Church
Church of the Brethren
The Coptic Orthodox Church in North America
The Episcopal Church
Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
Friends United Meeting
Greek Orthodox Archdiocese of America
Hungarian Reformed Church in America
International Council of Community Churches
Korean Presbyterian Church in America
Malankara Orthodox Syrian Church
Mar Thoma Church
Moravian Church in America Northern Province and Southern Province
National Baptist Convention of America
National Baptist Convention, U.S.A., Inc.
National Missionary Baptist Convention of America
Orthodox Church in America
Patriarchal Parishes of the Russian Orthodox Church in the USA
Philadelphia Yearly Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends
Polish National Catholic Church of America
Presbyterian Church (U.S.A.)
Progressive National Baptist Convention, Inc.
Reformed Church in America
Serbian Orthodox Church in the U.S.A. and Canada
The Swedenborgian Church
Syrian Orthodox Church of Antioch
Ukrainian Orthodox Church of America
United Church of Christ
The United Methodist Church
This breakdown will follow the deterioration of the mainline Protestant world and it will fundamentally alter the religious and cultural environment in the West.The article was specifically referencing the West.
I thought so too. Also he seems to believe that the fate of evangelical churches are in the hands of man and not in God's hands.
I beg to differ.
Evangelicalism doesn't need a bailout. Much of it needs a funeral.Although I disagree with some of his solutions and some of his predicted outcomes, I agree with this statement.
Great news. Praise God!
Our church (SBC) has grown from 300 to 1200 (adult) members in the last year and the pace continues at about 100 a month.
Evangelicalism needs a "rescue mission" from the world Christian community. It is time for missionaries to come to America from Asia and Africa.I disagree with that 'solution,' but the point I'm making is that the only reference he makes to non-Western Christians is by referencing a 'need' for missionaries to the West to revitalize Christianity in the wake of a Western Evangelical collapse.
There are some good Churches on that list
Yes, they do but they seem to want Him to be in their image.
A lot of people make that mistake. It says the Way is narrow.
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