A small former UMC church out in the country near me that disaffiliated had contractors working last week to more than double the size of their parking lot.
The “modernizing” churches are haemhorraging members who either determine that there is nothing useful in this Christian stuff that changes every week or they are moving to Churches who retain the original Doctrine and do not waver and collapse when the wind blows gently against them.
Orthodox Churches are ballooning in this country as are the Traditional Mass Catholic Churches even as Boss Bergoglio tries to shut them down,