The US Church Isn't Dying and People Aren't Fleeing, Says Author of Myth-Busting Book

Michael Foust : Aug 19, 2019
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"It's time to call the liberalizing effort in the Church a major failure. People are voting with their feet. They are leaving the liberal, compromising churches in massive numbers. Some of those are just tossing the faith while others are going across the street to the more faithful evangelical churches, those that actually believe Christianity is true." -Glenn T. Stanton, Author of Myth of the Dying Church: How Christianity Is Actually Thriving in America and the World

[Christianheadlines.com] We hear so much about the growth of the so-called "nones"—those who say they no longer identify with any institutional church. You say these "nones" are not what most people have been told–that they don't represent a growing population of new unbelievers. Explain what you mean. (Image: via Christian Headlines)

The nones are certainly the most misunderstood, and therefore most misreported, part of the story in all of this. Most leading, university-based sociologists of religion explain these are certainly not a new and growing category of unbelievers. The nones are largely those who were never really attached to a church in the first place. They are folks who might have said, "Yes, I'm Methodist" or "I'm Baptist" but they were actually only CEO Christians ... Christmas and Easter Only types. Their pastor never knew who they were. But now, based on how survey questions are being asked, they are more comfortable being honest, saying they have no real connection to any institutional church.

Thus, the nones only mark a new categorization, not new unbelievers. Again, like the Harvard/Indiana research and other sources explain, there is not a growing secularization among people in the United States... Subscribe for free to Breaking Christian News here

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