Logic would suggest Christianity shouldn’t have survived its earliest years. It was persecuted from the beginning, with thousands of its earliest disciples killed or jailed. So what made it so compelling that converts would risk their lives for it?
In his book Jesus Is Risen: Paul and the Early Church, David Limbaugh highlights reasons.
How Christianity Survived Its Early Years, Against the Odds
Covid restrictions have hurt the Church very badly in America. In talking to many Pastors they beleive some, if not many, will not come back to the Church. I pray that will not happen. Certainly a sign of the times……….Many Americans continue to make Facebook and other social media there Church.
(Gallup) Americans’ membership in houses of worship continued to decline last year, dropping below 50% for the first time in Gallup’s eight-decade trend. In 2020, 47% of Americans said they belonged to a church, synagogue or mosque, down from 50% in 2018 and 70% in 1999.
U.S. church membership was 73% when Gallup first measured it in 1937 and remained near 70% for the next six decades, before beginning a steady decline around the turn of the 21st century.
As many Americans celebrate Easter and Passover this week, Gallup updates a 2019 analysis that examined the decline in church membership over the past 20 years.
