My goodness………
It’s not exactly news, but there are fewer people attending church now than before the pandemic. What we’re finding out now is just how big of a drop it was. According to a survey by the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University, the percentage of people ages 39 to 57 who attended a worship service during the week, either in person or online, fell to 28% in 2023. That is down from 41% in 2020.
That. Is. A. Big. Drop.
Just 4% of Americans have a Biblical Worldview, and just 37% of Pastors have a Biblical Worldview. Barna Research.
Past Report From ChurchLeaders
“We are currently in the largest and fastest religious shift in the history of our country,” said Jim Davis, speaking last week with his colleague, Michael Graham, on “The Stetzer ChurchLeaders Podcast.” A study Davis and Graham commissioned has found that 40 million adult Americans, 15 million of whom are evangelicals, are no longer attending church, a situation the two describe as “bleak.” More Here
How is your Church doing in carrying out the Great Commission? Is your Church baptizing people and raising up mature Christians? If not, why not? The Great Commission is a command from Jesus, not a suggestion. Help your Pastor! Reach into the streets of your community. Don’t just ‘play’ Church, be the Church, as God intended it to be. I know of Churches that have not baptized anyone for years! A Deacon told me awhile back that his Church had not baptized anyone for 6 years! Such a sad commentary on the Church of this decade. The walls of the Church have become such a comfort zone for many.
Got Questions states:
Matthew 28:19–20 contains what has come to be called the Great Commission: “Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And surely I am with you always, to the very end of the age.” Jesus gave this command to the apostles shortly before He ascended into heaven, and it essentially outlines what Jesus expected the apostles and those who followed them to do in His absence. More Here
3 But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. 2 People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, 3 without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, 4 treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— 5 having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people.
6 They are the kind who worm their way into homes and gain control over gullible women, who are loaded down with sins and are swayed by all kinds of evil desires, 7 always learning but never able to come to a knowledge of the truth. 8 Just as Jannes and Jambres opposed Moses, so also these teachers oppose the truth. They are men of depraved minds, who, as far as the faith is concerned, are rejected. 9 But they will not get very far because, as in the case of those men, their folly will be clear to everyone.
JESUS! JESUS! Get busy Christians and carry out The Great Commission, do not become part of the do-little-sit-more Church. Only if Albuquerque could get excited for JESUS and it does for balloons! MY GOODNESS!
