Where Evangelical Churches Are Losing Ground Fastest — It’s Often in Their Old Strongholds

The useful part

Christianity is losing ground fastest, and they will probably name New England, the Pacific Northwest, or one of America's largest cities. A small evangelical presence is not the same as a rapidly declining evangelical presence. The more surprising losses may be occurring in rural communities and traditional evangelical strongholds.

How it works

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• That spiritual curiosity tells us something important: human beings are searching for meaning, hope, guidance and something beyond the purely material world.
• It would be a mistake, however, to interpret this emphasis as a simplistic or modern understanding of sola Scriptura coupled with a narrow mandate to preach the Word to the far corners of the earth.
• Music, spirituality and the search for meaning Singing is a practice so deeply embedded in Christian worship that it can easily be taken for granted.
• In what follows, I want to explain my reasoning and explain why it also extends to a couple of today's other major songwriting groups, Bethel and Elevation.

What to take from it

Word and engagement in mission has long been central to Anglican history, though it may be more accurately associated with evangelical Anglicanism. It promises something far better: that because of Jesus, death doesn't get the last word. Survey finds Gen Z most likely to identify as religious Generation Z adults are more likely than older Americans to describe themselves as "religious," even as many also engage in practices at odds with Christian teaching, according to a new survey.

Example or evidence

• Singing, Spirituality and the Search for Meaning,' a two-day conference at the University of Birmingham that brought together theologians, musicians and researchers to explore the physical, social and...
• Generation Z (ages 18 to 29), millennials (30 to 45), Generation X (46 to 61) and baby boomers (62 and older).
• Curiosity' resource makes an important observation about the moment we are living in.
• After years in which Western culture has often been described as becoming increasingly secular, many people are once again openly interested in spiritual things.

Details worth keeping

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