Data on church growth over the past several decades reveal that churches accommodating to secular culture lose members, many of them in fact. Pick any random number of churches that have lost significant membership and check out their acceptance of liberal theology, including as it relates to social issues such as same-sex marriage (notable American examples are the United Methodists, Episcopalians, and United Church of Christ). In Canada, the United Church of Canada, the formerly large Protestant denomination with strong evangelical roots, is now on life support dealing with a massive loss of church membership (in 2012, average weekly church attendance across Canada was less than 159,000). (more…)
Posts Tagged ‘Liberal church decline’
A Bright Light versus Evangelical Anarchism
Posted in Culture, tagged Christian Left, Liberal church decline, same-sex marriage on December 20, 2014|
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