[Louis Foxwell]

“It is my disappointment and the feeling of many of my colleagues that this has been one of the reasons contributing to a decline in membership and attendance,” Miller said. “The church has not stayed current with the people it serves.”

PRECISELY!!

It is, after all, the responsibility of the church of Christ to be "up to date" with popular morality.

Te decline in membership and attendance is caused by quite the opposite. That is, the decline in morality and Biblical teaching in the official church. They double down on the road to hell.

[AppyPappy]

The more they talk about it, the more people leave. We left over it. The problem became that the church could not read through the entire Bible because there were too many parts that offended them. The non-denom church we attend now did a sermon series on Romans. The UMC church we attended could not do that.