Over at Christianity Today's blog, Ed Stetzer began a blog series on "Churches in America" this summer. Over the next few weeks, we'll course through this with some thoughts and questions to engage you, church leaders, with some of what he says.
His first post is here.
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One fact: the church's influence on people is fading. It's a slow fade, to be sure. But it's still fading. It might be that the slow fade has been part of the problem. It's been slow and gradual enough that too few churches and church leaders really noticed. But now, for many churches, the fade has hit a crucial point, and it seems for some that there's no return.
Stetzer also points out, however, that there is no credible research that shows Christianity is dying. It's just people are less interested in attending church and less influenced by the church. That, I think, is a really interesting dynamic.
