“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.”
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While mainline churches are slipping around here badly, evangelical churches are growing here. The PCA church is over-crowded. The non-denom I attend is too crowded. People seem to be more interested in Biblical teaching rather than vignette sermons. we had 4 baptisms a few weeks back. One from Vietnam and 3 from China.