The Great Evangelical Recession: 6 Factors That Will Crash the American Church...and How to Prepare

The direction of accelerating change includes anti-Christian reactionism and pro-homosexuality.

multiple accounts, evangelical believers are between 7 and 9 percent of the United States population.

“The problem is that insiders are often the ones least capable of seeing things from an outside perspective. It’s difficult to get outside of our own paradigms. But it’s imperative if our industry is going to be ready for the brave new world.”[13]

A study by the non-evangelical group Jewish and Community Research asked 1,200 college and university professors if they had “unfavorable feelings” toward various religions.[51] Less than one in four college and university professors have negative feelings toward Muslims, but a majority of them have negative feelings toward evangelical Christians.

New technology does not change a culture’s direction. It simply accelerates the change.

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

“Christianity has died many times and risen again; for it had a God who knew the way out of the grave.” G. K. Chesterton, The Everlasting Man

Future America Is Reactionary Against Bible-Believing Christianity

The “host” culture is changing faster than most of us (inside and out of the church) realize.