The Church is shrinking each day. In a recent study carried out in America covering close to forty years,over various denominations revealed the following:
1.Over the last twenty-five years more people have left the Church than all the people who joined it from the first and second Awakening and Billy Graham’s evangelism..!!!
2.The average age of the Church is changing and is now sixty five, based on actual head counts.
3. The young see the elderly as people who have rejected them.
SOME OF THE REASONS FOR THE DROPPING OF CHURCH ATTENDANCE:
A. CLERGY SANDALS IN-+1980 (AND ONGOING). SEX AND CHILD ABUSE.
B. CHURCH GAINED POLITICAL POWER IN 1980’S
C. INCREASE IN SCHOOL ACTIVITIES OVER WEEKENDS IN +-1990’s.
D. 9/11 ATTACK ON TWIN TOWERS IN U.S.A..LEADING TO FANATIC POLARISATION BETWEEN ISLAM AND
CHRISTIANITY.
E. SOCIAL MEDIA FROM ABOUT THE YEAR TWO THOUSAND LEAD TO A HUGE DROP.
F. FROM ABOUT TWENTY-TEN, YOUNG PEOPLE STARTED TO REJECT THE GOSPEL AS TAUGHT BY THEIR PARENTS.
G. IN ABOUT TWO THOUSAND AND FIVE CULTURE MOVED FROM CHURCH TO SECULAR.
H. THE SO CALLED PANDEMIC IN TWENTY-TWENTY LEAD TO A LARGE DROP AGAIN.
I. BETWEEN 1980 AND 2020 THE WORLD BIRTHRATE DROPPED BY ABOUT THIRTY PERCENT.
H. IN THE CHURCH NOW, LOTS OF DEEDS BUT LITTLE PRAYER.
I. THE FIRST CENTURY CHURCH IS GONE.
J. FEW DEEP RELATIONSHIPS BETWEEN FELLOW CHRISTIANS TODAY.
K. IT IS ESTIMATED THAT THE CHURCH WILL BE EMPTY BY 2040 AS MOST OF THE ELDERLY WOULD HAVE DIED.
L. ISLAM IS NOW THE LARGEST
RELIGION IN THE WORLD.
M. ACCORDING TO RESEARCH IN AMERICA,CHRISTIANITY IS RAPIDLY GROWING IN CHINA AND THE MIDDLE EAST. LARGE NUMBERS OF MUSLIMS IN EUROPE. WHAT IS THE TRUTH? DECEPTION AND OR DATA MANIPULATION?.
N. ARE WE PRAYING DAILY, IN THE SPIRIT TO FIND OUT??
O. ABORTIONS IN THE WORLD ARE LEGAL IN MANY STATES AND THE CHURCH REMAINS SILENT.
PLEASE PRAY THAT THE FEAR OF THE LORD WILL RETURN TO THE CHURCH AND THAT THE AUTHORITY OF JESUS WILL ACKNOWLEDGED BY ALL IN THE CHURCH.
CHRIST ALONE IS THE HEAD OF HIS CHURCH. NO ONE ELSE.