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12. "Decline" is a tough category for any social reality
Tue Jul 18, 2017, 07:55 PM
Jul 2017

Liberal Christian churches have been losing members in much greater numbers for various reasons. Conservatives Christianity grows, especially in the Southern Hemisphere, but the narrative that liberals can tell is more honest and less manipulative. Liberals owe it their faith to tell the better story and expose a fraudulent one. People who live without faith would at least respect us more if we could tell a narrative about the world that's so close to the new humanity in Jesus that we all might for a minute forget about who's winning by random standard of decline and ascension and enjoy the process of having something that we can trust will only lose if people refuse to appreciate how much more compelling it is to follow Jesus than to love eternal life more than God.

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