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Which "church?" There are over seven hundred Christian denominations in the United States alone, and they all teach something different.

Many of the "evangelical" ones are headed by some charismatic soap-salesman whose visage is plastered on huge, oversized billboards all around town, and who upon his death passes the baton to his son, the one with the identical toothy grin.

Evangelical Christianity has run its course. You can't base an entire religious movement strictly on emotion; people don't work like that. The disillusionment was inevitable.

Here's a question for your "religion:"

If God created the first man who became the first God, and God was once a man, how did God become God in the first place if he was once a man?

By evangelicalism I mean protestant churches that are committed to the inerrancy of scripture and profess historic chalcedonian Christianity. The creeds say, "I believe in one holy catholic church" catholic meaning "universal". Most evangelicals would say that the Church is an ivisible and mysterious organism under the headship of Jesus Christ, consisting of everyone who professes that Jesus is Lord and that God raised him from the dead. The commentary that you are making on contemporary evangelical churches and the cult of personality we have fallen into is unfortunately not unfounded.

However, unlike Barna, I believe that evangelicalism is not coming to end, but rather is going a through a change. What we will become remains to be seen.