Monday, November 01, 2021

It's Monday: 'Average U.S. Pastor and Churchgoer Grow Older' and More


I see the graying of US Christianity in church every Sunday. While the church has its share of young people, what concerns me is that they have not been discipled enough that they have been inoculated against the world becoming more attractive to them than following Jesus. Indeed they do not see the difference between what Jesus teaches and the world teaches due to the extent secular values have infiltrated the American churches, evangelical as well as mainstream. Indeed Jesus' teaching and secular values are often confused. 

The Contentious Literary Family That Explains Global Anglicanism
Anglicans!! 

Ecology's Anglican Forerunners
From the perspective of creation care the Anglican Church has bore some good fruit.

Don’t Just Read Your Bible: 12 Ways to Go Deeper
If you have never read the Bible, read a modern translation, read it aloud, and begin with the Synoptic Gospels--Matthew, Mark, and Luke, and then John's Gospel and then John's three letters. Meet Jesus first. Don't get bogged down in the Old Testament.

A Three-Step Plan for Mobilizing Your Small Group Outreach
"Get your small group thinking about others and sharing their faith. If you don’t take the lead in cultivating an outward-orientation to your group life then it is unlikely somebody else in the group will." Good point. Small group outreach starts with the small group leader.

Study: Most White Evangelicals Don’t Want to Live in a Religiously Diverse Country
A Christian country cannot be established by legislation or forced conversions. Several Eurpeam countries have established churches. They are highly secularized. In the past the population of a principality was baptized when its prince became a Christian. However, the people remained pagan in their beliefs and practices.

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