I sense Christianity is waning but I live in a blue state. Princeton has a gigantic mosque filled with cars in the parking lot and giant Hindu temples...
Watch out for the “Grace Revolution” which God is sweeping across the Body of Christ by His spirit.
I’m hoping for a last Great Awakening before He comes for us and afterwards, it all comes crashing down on earth.
In Los Angeles its booming among every demographic. We are literally the City of Angels.
It’s clear that many in this nation are rejecting Christianity, but I wonder if that explains the survey numbers completely. As the persecution of Christians in the public square increases, I wonder how many Christians simply decline to participate in such polls and how that might skew the numbers.
Therefore, to determine the size of the ‘cup’ by only one factor, that of the members of organized religion, is to only see a portion of the 'cup'.
Older mainline Protestant churches around here are closing-up shop faster than Sears stores. The local Catholic diocese is going through a restructuring that will eventually see at least 60% of current churches closing. The trend lines are not good.
The only bright spot is that nondenominational Evangelical churches appear to be moving in to a lot of buildings vacated by the old churches.
Many believers hesitate to call them selves Christian because of all of the noise the religious institutions make for the purpose of finiancial gain and power.
It does not take a genius to figure that religious institutions with their highly educated scholars does not have the key to eternal life.
I have saw more christian works from individuals who did not claim to be christian than i have from individuals in the religious institutions.
Jesus said to the religious leaders of his day that they were of their father the devil, these were preachers for hire just like most of todays religious leaders, why would they be any different?.
When judgement day comes it is not going to make any difference what church some one went to or how long they had been in the quire or how loud they sang or how high they jumped.
But how far they walked with God after they came back down to earth.
Jeremiah 31:31-34
31 Behold, the days come, saith the Lord, that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel, and with the house of Judah:
32 Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt; which my covenant they brake, although I was an husband unto them, saith the Lord:
33 But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel; After those days, saith the Lord, I will put my law in their inward parts, and write it in their hearts; and will be their God, and they shall be my people.
Hebrews8
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This is the covenant I will establish with the people of Israel
after that time, declares the Lord.
I will put my laws in their minds
and write them on their hearts.
I will be their God,
and they will be my people.
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No longer will they teach their neighbor,
or say to one another, ‘Know the Lord,’
because they will all know me,
from the least of them to the greatest.
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For I will forgive their wickedness
and will remember their sins no more.
Again, God said in rev 18:4
Come out of her, my people, lest you share in her sins, and lest you receive of her plagues.