We had several sub-topics to drive the discussion that revolved around community, economics, political influence, media control, and education.

A fourth cluster of complicating factors involves what is practiced in different parts of the world today.

While we focus on a few large churches and dynamic national leaders, the church’s overall numbers are shrinking. Its primary fuel—donations—is drying up and disappearing. And its political fervor is dividing the movement from within. In addition to these internal crises, the outside host culture is quietly but quickly turning antagonistic and hosti