Is it true that less people are going to church nowadays?

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   blaiddgochposted 11 years ago

   Is it true that less people are going to church nowadays?
   
   Or is it about the same as before?

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   Attikosposted 11 years ago

   Membership and attendance are declining in most American churches. In those e.g. the Episcopal and Presbyterian that have been taken over by a hierarchy dedicated to using them as institutions to promote secularist progressive ideology, it has been more of a hemorrhage than a gradual erosion. Projections are that in another twenty years American church buildings will be as empty as those in Europe now are, many of them will be sold off for redevelopment of the real estate, and some denominations will be closing up shop due to disintegration.
   
   Some people cheer this on. Some even look gleefully forward to dancing on the grave of American religion. Most are saddened even as they leave church for the last time by institutionalized American Christianity's betrayal of the people, and they continue to practice their beliefs in a different setting.

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   Apostle Jackposted 11 years ago

   I think that they are attracted by the wrong thing.They look more at the glitter and the gleam than the integrity of spirit.
   
   You can sum-it-up  by saying ,it is quantity without quality.

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   connorjposted 11 years ago

   I have little knowledge of this; however, it certainly appears so. Yet I always loved reading C.S. Lewis' works and I think I am beginning to understand that it is inevitable that it will become smaller. I do believe smaller will mean a strengthening though. Therefore, one could say it is indeed Good News that perhaps a reduction in numbers may just strengthen the Spirit of the body and perhaps with God's Grace become more insulated from the world around.
   Afterall, isn't our world really a good world that has gone bad and appears to continue to fall down this path. Thus, I think we can assume a decline. It is what we should expect. However, perhaps this is like a quickening. That my friends is Good News, for the ones that remain; more or less like a maturing of mustard seeds on various forms of ground...

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   rLcasaLmeposted 11 years ago

   Sadly, but true. But I guess it is God's way of separating the committed ones from the rest.

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   inChristaloneposted 11 years ago

   Yes and no.  Traditional denominations are on a steep decline but many non-denominational churches are growing rapidly.  I think a lot of this has to with people being tired of religion and they want to truly experience the one true God and have a deep and intimate relationship with Him rather than just putting in their time for the approval of men.

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