Gallup: About one-third of Americans attend worship weekly or ‘almost weekly,’ a drop from 2001-03 By Mark A. Kellner – The Washington Times – Monday, March 25, 2024 The percentage of Americans who attend weekly worship services has fallen sharply over the past 20 years, a new Gallup poll shows. Thirty percent of respondents said they attend services weekly or … More Weekly worship attendance or ‘almost weekly,’
Today, the COVID-19 pandemic and associated lockdowns seems, at least to most of us, like an extended nightmare of yesterday. However, some of the ways that our lives changed have stuck with us. For example, according to the U.S. Census Bureau, the number of Americans working primarily from home has tripled since 2019. Many people will never go … More Why So Many Are Choosing Couches Over Pews
by William Boekestein In 1754 Benjamin Franklin published a cartoon called “Join or Die.” It pictured a snake cut into eights representing the British colonies in the New World. Franklin argued that unless the colonies formed one body they would never be able to resist the powerful threat of the French and their Indian allies… … More Why Should I Join a Church?
NEWS PROVIDED BY/ empty tomb, inc. / Aug. 30, 2022 CHAMPAIGN, Ill., Aug. 30, 2022 /Christian Newswire/ — Fact: Church member giving declined in 2019, the year before the COVID pandemic took off, according to data published in empty tomb’s latest edition, The State of Church Giving through 2019: Serve God with Money At-Scale or Serve … More Declining Church Giving Facts & Solution
It’s been almost 22 months since the onset of the COVID-19 global pandemic, a catastrophic turn that upended life as we knew it. Almost overnight, offices emptied out, businesses shut down and schools and churches were forced to go online, if at all. “Fifteen days to flatten the curve” turned to months and then a … More Stop Using COVID As an Excuse to Not Go to Church
AMP and RVR 1960 CONTEXT: When COVID-19 first came around I wrote that I supported the temporary restrictions on meeting in churches, the assembling together of the saints imposed by the government and was highly criticized for it by many. Covid was at the time an unknown entity and I believe then and now the … More Daily Devotional – Meeting Together
JEFF ROBINSON I have heard many versions of this notion over the years, phrased as both a statement and a declaration. “I don’t have to go to church to be a Christian—do I?” More often than not, it’s been put this way: “I love Jesus and the Bible, but I don’t love the church.” Or … More Must I Join a Church to be a Christian?
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