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

hat if the government revokes our tax-exemption? What if youth sports take over Sunday morning? What if non-Christians get to pray before city council meetings? The inherent fragility of our churches, ministries, and schools helps explain, at least in part, why so many Christians carry so much anxiety today, and why we’re conditioned to see a threa

We face even greater challenges in our day. It is clear that the culture is increasingly moving away from Christian belief. The academy, the media, and the entertainment world challenge Christian faith on intellectual, spiritual, and moral fronts. Pragmatism lures us with promises of vast size and huge budgets. Postmodernism suggests we lay down ou

it seems to be exacerbating and accelerating declining trends that congregations have been facing for years.”