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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@revjeffvox @ScottCross_8 @Sean_M_Dennis @DrSampler @andreacavie @RevChrisDavis Accurately dividing scripture is also important, and to conflate female pastors with liberal social justice and DEI is unjustified. The only way that happens is when peop...
@revjeffvox @ScottCross_8 @Sean_M_Dennis @DrSampler @andreacavie @RevChrisDavis Accurately dividing scripture is also important, and to conflate female pastors with liberal social justice and DEI is u
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@revjeffvox @William_E_Wolfe I don’t think these zones cover me… - I’m with zone 1 on social Justice, but not militant - I’m with Zone 3a in regards to grounding egalitarian views in the Bible and being cooperative with complementarians since it’s a ...
@revjeffvox @William_E_Wolfe I don’t think these zones cover me… - I’m with zone 1 on social Justice, but not militant - I’m with Zone 3a in regards to grounding egalitarian views in the Bible and bei
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