Posted on 07/16/2023 7:18:35 AM PDT by Roman_War_Criminal
If you live in America, the chances are that not only is religion not the most important thing in your life—84% of you—but additionally, nearly 30% of you feel it’s not important at all, or up 10% from a decade ago.
A new survey by the Public Religion Research Institute (PRRI) contains both warning and comfort for the nation’s faithful. On the one hand, religion is plummeting fast on the priority lists of most Americans, but on the other, most of those remaining in the Christian church, 59%, have attended their houses of worship for more than 10 years. And of those regular church attendees 82% say they are optimistic about the future of their congregation, and 89% say they are proud to be associated with their church.
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Most people who have left their former religion, 56%, said they departed because they stopped believing its teachings, 30% of switchers said their faith’s attitudes toward LGBTQ people led them to leave, and 27% cited “scandals involving leaders.”
(Excerpt) Read more at worldreligionnews.com ...
Falling Away Ping...
It has and always will be the remnant. A narrow path.. few be that find it. God faithfully calls his elect.. so don’t worry about the taxes.. they get burned.
Yep!
Matthew 7:14
But small is the gate and narrow the road that leads to life, and only a few find it.
The author conflates religion and faith with churches. Many churches have degenerated into corrupted, unreligious cesspools. People of faith do not need morally suspect individuals in fancy costumes lecturing them supposedly religious matters.
162 days until Santa Day.
Yes....and the church today leadership shows they think Worship of God is for teenagers. The Gosple message does not spread because of music....it spreads and people saved by the work of the Holy Spirit....He will attract whom He will.
I was raised Catholic and tried Methodist and Lutheran churches. Joined a Baptist Church with Southern Baptist leanings and I am happy there. The Baptist reliance on scripture as the basis for its beliefs won me over as well as its rejection of the LJBTQ Perversions.
Everybody has to make their own choices but beware of churches that stray from Christian doctrine - churches that promote LGBTQ nonesense, reject belief in the Divinity of Christ, the Resurrection,the existence of Satan as a malevolent entity, etc and accept non Bible based heresies on open borders and gun control etc and reject the primacy of scripture.
A lot of mainline Christian churches have drifted into outright heresies on the above subjects but splinter Methodist, Lutheran, Presbyterian and Anglocan congregations adhering to Biblical orthodoxy exist.
I hope we are in a Fourth Great Awakening. America needs ut.
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