Your fever dreams are incorrect, Mark. Reformed Presbyterians, Baptists, Anglicans, Methodists and Congregationalists are all growing mightily.
We'll pause while you cite the numbers for the OPC, but please check out the numbers for the Presbyterian Church in America which is growing throughout the US and the world.
Last week I also posted a link showing that by 2022, Brazil will be predominantly Protestant, due to the tremendous current shift away from Roman Catholicism towards Pentecostal and Reformed faith.
Rome is fading, closing parochial schools and seminaries all over the country. Rome's singular increase comes from immigration from a few South American countries, Italy, Spain and Portugal.
The rest of the world is turning from Rome to the light of the Gospel.
No other religion in the United States has lost more members to other faiths, or to no faith at all, than Catholicism, according to the new survey released by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. The survey, conducted in 2007, found that 31 percent of Americans were raised Catholic, but less than 25 per cent of them still identify as Catholic... In the marketplace of American faith, Catholicism is the big loser.
And Rome would be in an even worse situation without illegal immigration propping up its membership rolls.
As usual you present the journalist equivalent of fertilizer as objective fact. Your big revelation comes from a study conducted by graduate journalism students. Give me a break!
It would appear that your only objective standard for veracity is that the study or factoid concur with your preset notions. I don't know where you went to school or work but that level of sloppy and dishonest research would get you dismissed where I did.
While counting don't forget the explosion of nondenominational churches.
The rest of the world is turning from Rome to the light of the Gospel.
I think it's pretty interesting that you're seeing church growth where The Gospel is preached and decline in churches whose members don't even know The Gospel let alone teach it, or preach it.
THANKS FOR THE PINGS.
Mightily? In the 18th century United States, better than 95% of Protestants were Reformed. Now, there are less than 5%. There aren't any Reformed Methodists - they rejected Calvin going all the way back to Wesley. I'm not sure that any Congregationalists are Reformed any more. I know that over 90% (I think the last time I looked it was 93%) of Presbyterians are not Reformed. And perhaps 10% of Baptists are Reformed.
We'll pause while you cite the numbers for the OPC, but please check out the numbers for the Presbyterian Church in America which is growing throughout the US and the world.
We all know the numbers of the OPC - plummeting faster than the approval rate for the Democrat Party. Why do you keep bringing up the PCA? Why do you not join them if they are so good? But increasing? When you are tiny, any growth can appear to be of interest. But let me ask you this: if the OPC and the PCA in their entirety gathered in any place in the world - even Iraq or Afghanistan - do you think that the Muslims would even care? They wouldn't. Not even the Muslims would call the remnants of the Reformed Christian.
No other religion in the United States has lost more members to other faiths, or to no faith at all, than Catholicism, according to the new survey released by the Pew Forum on Religion and Public Life. The survey, conducted in 2007, found that 31 percent of Americans were raised Catholic, but less than 25 per cent of them still identify as Catholic...
The enemy of my enemy is my friend, eh? The odious Pew crew hate Christians - they only identify as hating Catholics more. Perhaps you might research them as to the other findings that they have presented. Straws...