A recent survey suggests that percentage wise more people in the US claim to be Christians today than in 1900 BUT almost half of the Christians today don't go to church. This study also states that most people, especially young Americans, believe that Jesus is real.
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May 16, 2008 11:18 PM
Because most churches are so stuck on relegion and traditions of the past that they cannot relate to the people they should be ministering to today. Look around the churches in the city. Where are the young people?
May 16, 2008 11:19 PM
Although I have been in the church literally all my life, the church was not in me all that time (typical PKS - Preacher's Kid Syndrome). But upon establishing a personal relationship with God and not limiting that relationship based on the faults and failures I have observed closely in the lives of others - ministers, congregation, singers, etc., etc. - I was set free from that most effective trap the devil has used for centuries - to convince would-be believers that the church is so full of hypocrites and failures, that they are no different from the unbeliever and there is no need to attend. Many "good" people believe that they can have a relationship with God and not need to go to church. But the bible says, "Not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together, as the manner of some is; but exhorting one another: and so much the more, as ye see the day approaching." Hebrews 10:25 (KJV) When you realize that your relationship with God is just that - YOURS - you are not consumed by what everyone else's relationship status is, or their faults and failures. Now, I love church. I am free to worship and praise without restraint, constraint or compromise and I receive the strength, exhortation and blessings from assembling myself with brethren who are like-minded and of the same faith. Why do you think group therapy is so successful?!
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