There will always be exactly as many Christians as God wants there to be.
So is Mexican and African American support for Trump. The Dems are doomed!
No its not.
In 20 years, you are going to see churches of all denominations crushed by debt.
I agree with this as a Hollywood resident...also that young American Catholics are more passionate than their predecessors overall and not leaving in droves even in light of all the scandals.
However it will take some time before Christians figure out how to be culturallly influential...meaning producing and dispersing the arts and culture of the day, setting the tone for academic dialogue in the mainstream, holding meaningful l positions of leadership in industry,etc...
“New Harvard Research Says U.S. Christianity Is Not Shrinking, But Growing Stronger”
“Religious faith in America is going the way of the Yellow Pages and travel maps, we keep hearing. It’s just a matter of time until Christianity’s total and happy extinction, chortle our cultural elites. Is this true? Is churchgoing and religious adherence really in “widespread decline” so much so that conservative believers should suffer “growing anxiety”?
Two words: Absolutely not.”
“Mainline churches are tanking as if they have super-sized millstones around their necks. Yes, these churches are hemorrhaging members in startling numbers, but many of those folks are not leaving Christianity. They are simply going elsewhere. Because of this shifting, other very different kinds of churches are holding strong in crowds and have been for as long as such data has been collected. In some ways, they are even growing. This is what this new research has found.
The percentage of Americans who attend church more than once a week, pray daily, and accept the Bible as wholly reliable and deeply instructive to their lives has remained absolutely, steel-bar constant for the last 50 years or more, right up to today.”
Same link as above
Encouraging article, if valid. I question the meaningfulness of this point “They found that the percentage of church-attending Americans relative to overall population is more than four times greater today than it was in 1776.“ The population was almost entirely rural, which would certainly hinder attending a church when the only transportation was by horse or by foot.
Interesting.
“God laughs at Social Darwinists”
They aren’t making babies. They don’t believe in life. This is the deathknell for all these progressives. They can only recruit, which is why they go at spreading the death gay message with a grim passion so they can keep recruiting kids and adopting poor children without mothers or fathers and ruining them.
Then Christians or Jews show up with a stable, well ordered and happy family of five and they SCREAM. We had a family of eight on my block, some adopted, and the liberal neighborhood I lived in was beside themselves with evil gossip. I mean, they were ADOPTED. No difference. It was against the social order of the progressives...
These little storefront churches are just exploding all over the place, and I doubt anyone tracks their membership.
I grew up in the Congregational Church, and still now I believe in God and Jesus, I am in a non-denominational church.
Yeah, how is that women pastors, gay marriage, Chrislam, and/or rejection of scriptural authority working out for ya, ELCA, PCUSA, UCC, ELCA, RCC, UMC?
Too bad it is probably linked to the largely Catholic, 40 million illegals who have moved in on us.
How Americans of Conscience Can Co-Exist with the LGBT Community: A Possible Path Forward
How many of these ostensibly growing churches embrace - actively or passively - homoeroticism (there is no such thing as homosexuality) as a defensible lifestyle for a professing Christian?
As a musician, I am acquainted with quite a few younger (currently 24-34 YOA) professing Christians, many of whom were home-schooled and who are generally much more conservative than their peers. I know of not one such who has a particular problem with homoeroticism. (Homoerotic persons are commonplace in the music field, so this is not hypothetical.)
As one who has served in ministry, I am not so sanguine about the state of the organized church - whether it is labelled Evangelical or not.
I think it is back to the catacombs for the real church.
More Americans Attend Church Now Than At the Founding What is really counter-intuitive is what Stark and his colleagues at the Baylor Institute for Studies of Religion found when looking at U.S. church attendance numbers going back to the days of our nation’s founding. They found that the percentage of church-attending Americans relative to overall population is more than four times greater today than it was in 1776. The number of attendees has continued to rise each and every decade over our nation’s history right up until the present day.
There are some places where one can get optimistic, realistic, encouraging news, that isn’t fake. The Federalist is one.
And of course, in little Ole Free Republic.
I saw no comments about his “fertility” statements.
Anyone?
I noticed that our First Communion Classes are larger than ever. Over 150 children.
Why would conservatives who are Christians want centralized denominationalism (centralized government over churches), when they realize that centralized government, principally is not a good picture to begin with? And centralized government ruling over local congregations is not found anywhere in the New Testament as a mandate.
It's sad to say but it appears that Democrats would like nothing better than for it to be true. However, genuine Christianity will never grow extinct. Numbers mean little since Jesus already warned, “Go in through the narrow gate, because the gate is wide and the road is spacious that leads to destruction, and many people are entering by it. How narrow is the gate and how constricted is the road that leads to life, and there aren’t many people who find it!” (Matt. 7:13,14) Jesus is THE way, THE truth and THE life and no one comes to the Father but by Him!
God will kill off any “church” that embraces homosexuality and immorality. Read Revelation.