"The results of the year-long survey of 14,000 UK residents by the interdenominational Ecumenical Research Committee has been called ‘surprising’ by mainstream secular and Christian media. The overwhelming response is to call on churches “to robustly defend moral values with conviction and courage and cease being ‘silent’ and ‘lukewarm’ in the face of moral and social collapse.”
Even here in my neck of the woods--northern Illinois-- those churches with a reputation for taking the Gospel seriously are bursting at the seams with new members, while the old luke-warm mainline denominations mainly cater to the elderly who grew up in their churches and who couldn't possibly entertain the idea of going somewhere else...
Even here in my neck of the woods--northern Illinois-- those churches with a reputation for taking the Gospel seriously are bursting at the seams with new members, while the old luke-warm mainline denominations mainly cater to the elderly who grew up in their churches and who couldn't possibly entertain the idea of going somewhere else...
The MSCs are finding empty pews, while Gospel preaching mega-churches are standing room only. They can't build them fast enough.