Collection plates are growing even lighter as Protestant church member giving reached new lows in 2011, and tithing probably will not recover from the recession, according to a new report by Empty Tomb, a Christian research group.
A new study might reveal why a majority of Christian teens abandon their faith upon high school graduation. Some time ago Christian pollster George Barna documented that 61% of today’s twenty-somethings, who had been churched at one point during their teen years, are now spiritually disengaged. They do not attend church, read their Bible, or pray.
While on earth, Jesus Christ carried out works within a defined geographic area and set the entire area abuzz about God’s agenda. In contrast, church member giving and membership as a percent of population declined from 2010 to 2011 in the U.S.
Numerous studies have tracked Americans’ declining religious commitment in recent years, including a Pew Research survey that found 50 percent of U.S. adults believe “more people who are not religious” is a good thing or doesn’t matter for American society.
If you’re reading this then you are about to get a glimpse of the future… the future of choir music that is. The multi-gifted Deitrick Haddon is at the helm of a new choir out of Los Angeles, the League of Xtraordinary Worshippers (LXW) poised to make a big impact on the series premiere of Preachers of LA reality series.
Scott Brown, director of the National Center for Family-Integrated Churches, questions whether modern-day youth ministry is remotely Biblical.
