To: DJ MacWoW
The main protestant denominations have left Biblical interpretation and they are responsible for home churches growing.
I'm not sure what you mean by "left Biblical interpretation," but that is simply your assessment of the cause. In the end though, you are agreeing with the article that mainline American Evangelical Denominations are failing.
You say home churches are the result, he says huge conversions to Catholicsm or Orthodoxy. Personally, I think neither. Sure there will be some home churches and some "conversions" to either Catholic/Orthodox or confessional denominations (Presbyterian, Lutheran, etc). But, I think it'll just be less and less church attendance altogether as generations pass on.
17 posted on
03/11/2009 7:24:54 AM PDT by
raynearhood
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To: raynearhood
I'm not sure what you mean by "left Biblical interpretation," You don't? Too bad. Protestant churches are committing suicide.
20 posted on
03/11/2009 7:33:20 AM PDT by
DJ MacWoW
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To: raynearhood
“I’m not sure what you mean by “left Biblical interpretation,” but that is simply your assessment of the cause. In the end though, you are agreeing with the article that mainline American Evangelical Denominations are failing.”
I think you are confusing evanglical and protestant. Can you name a mainstream evangelical denomination for me? (hint, not of the following fall into that category: Methodist, Presbyterian, Lutheran, Episcopalian.)
Baptists and Pentecostals would fall in that category, but they have been GROWING at a steady pace for several decades (and continue to do so) so they can’t be any of the denominations the author was talking about.
Which mainstream evangelical (not protestant) denominations are shrinking?
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