Q&A: Why is church attendance dropping? Glenn Stanton's "The Myth of the Dying Church" — mainline churches are dying, not Bible-believing churches

McDowell just endorsed The Myth of the Dying Church by Glenn Stanton (Focus on the Family), releasing June 18. Stanton's thesis: what is growing is the "nones" (N-O-N-E-S). The group that is dying is the mainline liberal church. Bible-believing, Bible-preaching churches — with the one exception of the large Southern Baptist Convention — are either staying the same or growing. This challenges the narrative of a massive church decline in the West. What has declined is the number of people self-identifying as Christian, partly because the label is increasingly seen as intolerant and bigoted in ways it was not in the past.