A Canadian study found that conservative churches are still growing, while less orthodox congregations dwindle away.
Mainline Protestant churches are in trouble: A 2015 report by the Pew Research Center found that these congregations, once a mainstay of American religion, are now shrinking by about 1 million members annually. Fewer members not only means fewer souls saved, a frightening thought for some clergy members, but also less income for churches, further ensuring their decline.
Faced with this troubling development, clergy members have made various efforts to revive church attendance. It was almost 20 years ago that John Shelby Spong, a U.S. bishop in the Episcopalian Church, published his book “Why Christianity Must Change or Die.” It was presented as an antidote to the crisis of decline in mainline churches. Spong, a theological liberal, said congregations would grow if they abandoned their literal interpretation of the Bible and transformed along with changing times.
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3 comments:
How can liberals go to pray infront of god whrn they believe in Abortion ?
They can't 1:07. They are only fooling themselves. You can't be a democrat AND a Christian. The democrat platform is the doctrine of satan. You don't get to pick and choose what parts of the Bible you want to follow. Not only abortion but same sex relations.
There are a few democrats who oppose abortion. But people are looking for the truth and the mainline liberal churches are no longer teaching the truth, let alone showing the results of it. God still performs miracles but you have to believe and follow His instructions by the Book.
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