How to Shrink Your Church and Your Political Party

The American Culture

 

... So how do you shrink your church? Throw your principles out the door (in this case principles would be historic, orthodox doctrine), and adopt cultural values that are at war with those principles. This, of course, is supposedly the way to attract more people, especially those paragons of wisdom and virtue, millennials. Because no doubt if something is appealing to someone in their 20s, or even 30s, it must be right! But alas, it doesn’t quite work out this way: 

 [A] number of Christian denominations have already taken significant steps towards liberalizing their stances on homosexuality and marriage, and the evidence so far seems to indicate that affirming homosexuality is hardly a cure for membership woes. On the contrary, every major American church that has taken steps towards liberalization of sexual issues has seen a steep decline in membership.

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How To Shrink Your Church In One Easy Step                                                           

 "Every major American church that has taken steps towards liberalization on sexual issues has seen a steep decline in membership." 

 

 Photo at right from Energetic Procession