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2023-06-28 -Great Cultural Revolution

Church Attendance Is Down As America's Mental Health Crisis Continues To Run Amuck

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Posted by Besoeker 2023-06-28 00:00|| || Front Page|| [20 views ] Top

#1 How many of these congregations have become so 'Woke' that the older members can't recognize them as even being Christian?

Posted by magpie 2023-06-28 00:11|| 2023-06-28 00:11|| Front Page Top

#2 They use the word 'Church' which has a nebulous meaning. Newspaper circulation is down as well. I wonder if there is a correlated trend in society?

Posted by Procopius2k 2023-06-28 06:46|| 2023-06-28 06:46|| Front Page Top

#3 We have changed church locations several times in the last 10 years.

As more and more seem to be more geared to growth, entertainment and $$$ in the seats driven, than the word of GOD.

Posted by NN2N1 2023-06-28 08:26|| 2023-06-28 08:26|| Front Page Top

#4 Outside the seminary (I've never been inside one) peak insanity is often found on church council (That experience I happily escaped relatively untraumatized)

I left before the first announcement that the church I went to was going to host "Syrian immigrants."

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-06-28 08:29|| 2023-06-28 08:29|| Front Page Top

#5 A Sunday morning pulpit 4 person panel on "institutional racism" drove me out of one church. I never went back.

Posted by Besoeker 2023-06-28 08:31|| 2023-06-28 08:31|| Front Page Top

#6 How many of these congregations have become so 'Woke' that the older members can't recognize them as even being Christian?

You are welcome to go church shopping to try to find a congregation that suits you. A lot of churches these days have websites and some are even live streaming their services on the internet so you can see before you go.

But, ultimately, if you don't attend and participate, you can't complain.

Posted by Abu Uluque 2023-06-28 10:58|| 2023-06-28 10:58|| Front Page Top

#7 It's not my mission to "save" the congregation. My mission is to "get saved" myself..."

Posted by M. Murcek 2023-06-28 11:06|| 2023-06-28 11:06|| Front Page Top

#8 #1 That right there. When national office of FUMC signed on to BDS - the writing was on the wall. Then the clergy at my church were replaced by members of the alphabet tribe. Attendance was crushed and has not recovered.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2023-06-28 11:36|| 2023-06-28 11:36|| Front Page Top

#9 Priest shortage leaves over 3,500 churches without resident priest

Posted by Skidmark 2023-06-28 13:24|| 2023-06-28 13:24|| Front Page Top

#10 Decline in attendance at leftist congregations and denominations is a good thing.

But if you do want serious worship of God and Bible study, there are vibrant alternatives. I can recommend that you start with almost (almost!) any church affiliated with the Presbyterian Church in America (NOT the PCUSA.)

Posted by Tom 2023-06-28 14:01|| 2023-06-28 14:01|| Front Page Top

#11 Re #9.

Our diocese is combining urban and rural parishes into "families" of parishes. It is reminiscent of rural school consolidation that happened here back when Bob Kerry was governor.

Some priests, as pastors, will be in charge of many parishes; one on the list at the link will have 11 of them. Busy beaver, he!

Family of Parishes Rural List

Posted by Ebbeash Sheans1052 2023-06-28 14:58|| 2023-06-28 14:58|| Front Page Top

#12 Up until about four years ago the Catholic priest shortage was on the rebound as many seminaries had been emptied or closed until things turned about 20 years ago when JPII embraced the youth. The seminaries filled, but the actuarial result of so many down years is still being felt. Also most of the new priests that he inspired are very devout in comparison to the ones that are retiring or dying.
Things look to have dipped again after COVID. There seems to now be an issue at the Diocesan level where the Catholic Church seems to have synched up with the Dem platform other than Strickland and a few others. It seems to have happened during COVID.
On the Protestant side the churches are growing that are not acting as a propaganda arm of the national government and liberalism. Woke people don’t go to Church.the Bud Lite lesson applies. Pandering to people that have no interest in your product doesn’t work in marketing or evangelization.

Posted by Super Hose 2023-06-28 18:27|| 2023-06-28 18:27|| Front Page Top

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