Seems to me that it’s the liberal “church of what’s happenin’ now” that is bleeding membership. The United Church of Christ, once a “mainstream” church, went socialist and has lost membership ever since.
On the other hand, those churches which follow a generally socially conservative message have grown significantly, and at the expense of the liberal churches.
The author is engaging in some serious wishful thinking.
He is engaged in delusional thinking. Conservative churches in my area are growing steadily while those with the liberal bent are declining quickly.
Our local first baptist church started ordaining women to pastor and be deacons in the late 1980’s, big drop off in attendance and they were booted out of the local and state baptist conventions. Today they are losing members at an alarming rate. They go on their merry way like all is well and debating them as to where they will draw the line on any sin is like pinning jello to the wall. Oh they love everybody and we can’t have a standard because we can’t say if something is a sin or not, God is the final judge and the Bible doesn’t really mean what it says.