Why mainline churches are dying: no meaningful difference from wider culture gives people no reason to attend
McDowell gives the bottom-line diagnosis for mainline church decline
The mainline church that affirms everything Hollywood and wider culture teaches has no compelling reason to draw people. They are indistinguishable from the culture. Bible-preaching churches that fight for justice and proclaim Scripture as Jesus proclaimed it have distinctive identity. Faithfulness matters more than numerical success.
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@LostinAusten27 Interesting...so you moved away from a pretty liturgical church
@LostinAusten27 Interesting...so you moved away from a pretty liturgical church and reformed soteriology through some fairly different church polity and back to a mainline church but Wesleyan.
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@AmericanAccolon @BonifaceOption History of the mainline churches is not what determines proper interpretation on these matters. However, the Waldensians (late 12th century) believed in Salvation by Faith alone (pre Luther) and believed in the pries...
@AmericanAccolon @BonifaceOption History of the mainline churches is not what determines proper interpretation on these matters. However, the Waldensians (late 12th century) believed in Salvation by
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