There is good news. Just not in the article below. From every considered reliable source the data reveals the collapse of Christianity in America. From the most recent in-depth survey conducted by the George Barna Group within Arizona Christian University, only 6% of Americans have a Biblical worldview.

The large churches have steadily been losing members and attendees. Every major established denomination has rapidly been losing membership. Churches are closing. As memberships fall, more Protestant churches shuttering than opening.

Smaller churches and Bible-teaching sound doctrine churches have seen an increase in attendees and membership. But it pales in comparison to the decline in church attendance and those declaring themselves Christians in America, and throughout Western nations.

There is good news, just not in the article below.

This ought not to discourage and cause anxiety, doubt, or fear within you true believing, transformed and renewed of mind and spirit by the power of God, Christian. No, the reality is, the truth is this news while sounding bad at the outset ought to enervate each true Christian. Energize and reveal to each individual true Christian of sound doctrine and the knowledge of the will of God, which is found in the Word of God, and living accordingly to not merely attend a church on Sunday and then in the next six days appear to the world, friends, relatives, co-workers, neighbors, and complete strangers no different than the billions walking about in darkness, being darkness, dead within themselves.

No, there is GOOD NEWS, and that GOOD NEWS is the Lord Jesus Christ and what He, God our Father, and the Holy Spirit have done and continues to do within individuals who truly believe and obey and take up their cross and follow the Lord Jesus Christ. Having at least the beginning of spiritual understanding and wisdom whereby to grow.

To spread the GOOD NEWS of the gospel. THEE most important news and information the world has ever received, THEE biggest and most important event in world history — the coming of God to earth taking the humble form of man, being truly fully God while also being truly fully man. Living among us. Fulfilling Scripture. The Messiah. Dying on a tree, blameless, sinless was He, while sacrificing Himself and dying for you and for me so we can no longer receive God’s wrath and condemnation being the sinners we are, and receiving the free gift of grace, forgiveness, the promise of eternal life with God, with our Lord and Saviour, our Friend, our Healer, our King — the Lord Jesus Christ, and with the Holy Spirit — and the eternal Word of God.

We each have a mission given to us. As the wee little instruments we are. We may be no-names, never famous to the world, we may only have one gift given us by God — each true disciple of the Lord Jesus Christ, child of God has at least one gift given them — we may think ourselves weak and of no consequence — but this faith that fewer and fewer are holding to and continue to grow in as we do not leave the Bible, we do not leave pray, we do not leave God and Christ thinking there is another way, a better way, our own way — but each of us ought to be a light unto the world. Even one individual light unto the world, where by how we live those that come in contact with us see a difference. They see the heavenly Father in us, and they can then have the opportunity to glorify Him. And glorify the Son.

There is GOOD NEWS…just not in the article below…it is within each of us. May we be the good news not fearing the events of the day. Having a firm foundation in Biblical understanding and viewing everything that happens — everything that happens — with a Biblical view, a Biblical perspective, Biblical eyes, heart and mind.

Far too often, far too many have said I’m cynical. Bleak. Depressing. Consumed by world events and that I dwell on negativity. Anyone who has come to this conclusion about me does not know me, nor do they or have they attempted to understand what it is that is being done here.

This place is not to spread doom and gloom. Fear. Doubt. Anxiety. To depress. To make one feel dirty and in need of a shower. No, but to reveal the dire need now in these last of the last days for all true disciples of the Lord Jesus Christ, all true children of God to strengthen themselves. No longer coasting. No longer waiting for someone else to speak up, be the light, direct you. No longer being invisible or idle. But to sow good seed. Even in the knowledge a lot of it will fall on rocks, on thin terrible soil, in thistles and weeds and the seed will appear wasted. But until and unless we become individual believing sowers of the seed of the GOOD NEWS of the Lord Jesus Christ and speak and write of how He is THEE most important news story in world history, and world history is rapidly winding down — we won’t be sowing good seed onto good ground to take root and grow and bear fruit and in kind spread the good news of the gospel, which is the Lord Jesus Christ.

True Christian revival begins within individuals. Not in a big tent full of people. Not in a large auditorium filled with people. True Christian revival begins in an individual heart, an individual mind, and an individual spirit and sows the seed of the gospel of Christ, sows the GOOD NEWS of the Scriptures to others.

No matter what may be in the news, confronting us, or happening all around us.

No matter what may be happening to churches, denominations, and the reported state of Christianity in America, and in Western nations.

God is always at work. Always at work. Always good, righteous work. And God needs and uses good believing laborours.

And he said to them, “The harvest is plentiful, but the laborers are few. Therefore pray earnestly to the Lord of the harvest to send out laborers into his harvest.”

Luke 10:2 — English Standard Version

Don’t wait. Do.

For we ought to go to everyone and tell them of the marvelous, wondrous work done within us by the Lord, by the Holy Spirit, and how eternity is very real, every word within God’s Word is true, and there isn’t time to waste. Spreading the GOOD NEWS…which is the Lord Jesus Christ.

So, no matter what terrible earthly news occurs by the doings of man there is no need to fear, no need to be filled with anxiety, to be depressed, overcome, or to feel dirty and in need of a shower. The truth, the reality of the wickedness of men and women is not being cynical, depressing, or consumed in negativity. To the contrary — it ought to shine an even greater light on the Light, the Way, the Truth, and the Life, the Lord Jesus Christ and the Word of God making it all the easier to spread the GOOD NEWS in all this darkness and wickedness that is consuming sinful, lost men and women.

Ken Pullen, A CROOKED PATH, Tuesday, February 7th, 2023

The Collapse Of Faith In America

January 31, 2023

By Michael Snyder

Reprinted from The Economic Collapse

Once upon a time the United States was known as a “Christian nation”, but now our country is moving away from those roots at a pace that is absolutely breathtaking.  I spend a lot of time writing about the ongoing collapse of our economic system, but the truth is that we are witnessing a collapse of faith as well.  In 1972, a Pew survey found that 92 percent of all Americans identified as Christians, but the most recent Pew survey that asked this question discovered that only 63 percent of Americans still identify as Christians at this point…

Pew Research Center has been measuring religious identity since 2007 using a slightly different question wording – “What is your present religion, if any?” – as well as a different set of response options. Since 2007, the percentage of adults who say they are atheist, agnostic or “nothing in particular” in the Center’s surveys has grown from 16% to 29%. During this time, the share of U.S. adults who identify as Christian has fallen from 78% to 63%.

If you look at this chart, you will see that the decline has greatly accelerated in recent years.

Assuming that this trend continues, it won’t be too long before we are under 50 percent.

And it is very important to note that many Americans that still identify as “Christians” want absolutely nothing to do with traditional Christian values.

Church attendance in the United States has been steadily falling for decades as well, and the shift that we have seen since the pandemic started has been particularly dramatic…

Protestant pastors reported that typical church attendance is only 85% of pre-pandemic levels, McConnell said, while research by the Survey Center on American Life and the University of Chicago found that in spring 2022 67% of Americans reported attending church at least once a year, compared with 75% before the pandemic.

As a result, large numbers of churches are being forced to close all over the nation.

In fact, a recent Guardian article claimed that “thousands of churches are closing each year”…

Churches are closing at rapid numbers in the US, researchers say, as congregations dwindle across the country and a younger generation of Americans abandon Christianity altogether – even as faith continues to dominate American politics.

As the US adjusts to an increasingly non-religious population, thousands of churches are closing each year in the country – a figure that experts believe may have accelerated since the Covid-19 pandemic.

We are going down the exact same road that almost every other western nation has already traveled.

At one time, virtually every nation in the western world was heavily Christian, but now most of them have been transformed into post-Christian societies.

It could be argued that the United States is already there as well, and one recent survey found that most parents do not consider it to be important to pass their faith on to their children…

“Parents place less importance on their children growing up to have religious or political beliefs that are similar to their own. About a third (35%) say it is extremely or very important to them that their children share their religious beliefs, and 16% say the same about their children’s political beliefs,” Pew researchers Rachel Minkin and Juliana Horowitz said in Parenting in America Today released on Tuesday.

Numbers such as these should make all of us very sad.

As Americans increasingly move away from what they have previously believed, it is inevitable that even more churches will close.

Meanwhile, many of the institutions that still remain are bitterly divided over sexuality.  Here is just one example…

The United Methodist Church announced a proposal Friday to split the denomination over what it called “fundamental differences” regarding its beliefs on same-sex marriage and LGBTQ clergy.

The proposal, signed by 16 church leaders from around the world, will be voted on at the church’s 2020 general conference in May. If passed, it would allow for a “traditionalist” denomination to separate from the United Methodist Church, the second largest Protestant denomination in the U.S., with more than 12 million members worldwide.

And Roman Catholicism is also being torn apart by controversies related to sexuality…

Gay “clubs” operate openly in Catholic seminaries, the institutions that prepare men for the priesthood, the late Pope Benedict XVI has claimed in a posthumously published book scathing of Pope Francis’s progressive agenda.

In a blistering attack on the state of the Catholic Church under his successor’s papacy, Benedict, who died on Dec 31 at the age of 95, said that the vocational training of the next generation of priests is on the verge of “collapse”.

He claimed that some bishops allow trainee priests to watch pornographic films as an outlet for their sexual urges.

Our culture is being fundamentally transformed all around us, and many prominent Christian leaders are deeply concerned about where things are headed.

During a recent interview, Franklin Graham warned about what will happen if we do not change course…

Graham, who heads the Christian relief organization Samaritan’s Purse and the Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, told CBN’s Faithwire he’s read Scripture and knows where culture is headed.

“I know where we’re going,” he said. “I’ve read Revelation. I know what’s getting ready to happen to this world. Judgment is coming.”

Graham continued, “God is going to judge this earth with the rejection of His Son, and there’s gonna be a great price to pay.”

Of course Franklin Graham is quite right.

These are the end times, and judgment is coming.

Unfortunately, most people are not interested in listening to the warnings.

But even though our society is rapidly moving away from religion, more evidence that validates the Christian faith continues to emerge.

For example, a team of researchers in France has determined that an ancient stone that is on display at the Louvre Museum in Paris actually contains references to King David from the Bible…

The stele includes phrases such as “House of David” and “Altar of David,” but the damage to the stone’s face made accurate translation of the text difficult.

By using newer technology, including enhancing techniques in digital photography, researchers verified that the text does refer to the biblical King David.

I was so excited when I first read that.

And all over the Middle East, vast numbers of Muslims are becoming Christians after having supernatural experiences with Jesus…

The Rev. Lazarus Yeghnazar, founder of Transform Iran, an organization preaching the Gospel to Iran and planting churches, told CBN’s Faithwire many Iranians find themselves enraptured by Christ following these apparitions.

“They cannot stop talking about it. Hence the severe persecution, the severity of the brutality,” Yeghnazar said of the persecution many Iranian Christians face. “[Believers will say], ‘I saw a vision of a man with a white robe, with a cross on his shoulder or on his heart, and he says, ‘I’m Jesus.’”

Just as He has done throughout the past two thousand years, Jesus is still showing people that He is alive.

Sadly, many Americans simply do not care.

Our nation is choosing to reject faith like never before, and right now there are no indications that this is going to turn around any time soon.

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