Wednesday, November 27, 2019

"Man-made denomination change"

Four years ago, Church Growth Modeling extrapolated the attendance data from several denominations and obtained these interesting results,

What the extrapolation predicts is the extinction of the Episcopal organization, the Church in Wales, and the Scottish Episcopalians by 2040. 

I am very familiar with survival curves (very few are linear) of various disease states in humans, and while all will eventually fall to the zero line if given enough time, one often finds a few "long term" survivors of even the most deadly diseases. I suspect this will be true for the denominations shown above. My guess is that survivors will be larger parishes with beautiful buildings in large liberal cities. These islands will remain blissfully ignorant of the death throes of their smaller outlying brothers and sisters. 

These denominations are in decline because of how they have twisted the meaning of scripture to try to keep up with society's innovations. I maintain that any organization that dares to call itself Christian must hold onto the truths contained in the Bible, because once they set up rites and blessings that contradict the very scriptures that they are supposedly founded upon, the whole thing falls apart like the house built on sand. 

There can be no denying the fact that these denominations' decline is real. 

Skeptics will be those who deny that the change is self inflicted or due to "man-made denomination change".

4 comments:

  1. Katherine11:26 AM

    Absolutely right on the "man-made" description. They did it to themselves, and they're proud of it.

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    1. They seem to have missed the Biblical descriptions of the nature of man and his works.

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  2. They are Inclusive to the point that they will be swallowed up by the culture.

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  3. Culture will have a very small bite to swallow if these numbers hold up.

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