The Great Evangelical Recession: 6 Factors That Will Crash the American Church...and How to Prepare
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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.
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
... See moreThese changes will reach a point at which they directly affect church as we know it and life for evangelical Christians as we know it.
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.
“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]
“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
The rate of the change toward this direction will further accelerate as the oldest two generations die.
Future America Is Reactionary Against Bible-Believing Christianity