“...Mainstream Protestantism is dying out,...”
Yes, and that is because they have become infiltrated by those in the socialist movement who made their move in the 60’s. Since then they have taken over not only mainline churches, but also our education and much of our government. We need to purge them from all parts of our lives. They are a cancer to a true Constitutional America.
The only kind of purging and purification that will actually work is that which is based in the Lord’s saving grace.
America has a big, big population challenge.
I don’t believe that believing churches need to be fatalistic in the face of the challenge, or act under some mistaken conviction that they have to resort to worldly measures. That has us looking like swine. It doesn’t glorify the Lord.
I believe that the fire of the Spirit needs to be jealously rekindled among the smoldering wicks of existing believers and then spread with torch like intensity in pure godly love. We have become shy of wanting to do that because of the perversions such activity has seen in history. Why did the KKK burn crosses? Because it thought that was the light of God against its enemies (all the “wrong” people). Let’s not repeat that mistake a second time.
“mainline” Christian churches (and “reform” type Jewish synagogues) try to fill their pews by changing, watering down their product. Unfortunately, they often “throw out the
baby with the bathwater”....
YES, some degree of cultural adaptation can be beneficial...
BUT abdication to the secular culture...and.or even preaching the “validity” of such pagan cultic practices like killing babies, elderly people, the sick, etc........and of course
every possible form of sexual misconduct imaginable..
these “liberalizations” render the idea of holy scripture (and the one who gave or inspired it for us)...moot.
At that point, even the secular pagan “target audience” for these newly ‘liberal’ or ‘reform’ churches/synagogues...even the ‘target audience’ realizes that there’s no reason to attend ......since there’s nothing at those churches that isn’t already on offer... on the streets of any big city in America, in bars, in ‘sex clubs’ and in street gangs
already