We’re not doing what He told us to do. The mainline Protestant church is declining and has been for years. Jesus in Matthew 28 told us clearly to reach more people. We’re not doing what Jesus told us to do. It’s as simple as that. It’s the great commission, not the great excuse. It’s what Jesus told us we must do.
Any study of statistics of the mainline Protestant church today will make it clear that in the next 30 years we will not exist because the majority of our members will have died. This is scary and ridiculous that we cannot do the mobilization to reach new people that the leaders of our various denominations have done in starting the denominations. It is ridiculous that we have put other things as priorities and not followed Christ’s clear direction to make disciples. It’s time for us to mobilize our efforts to do what Jesus said.
Go to our website to find more information about what you can do. I’ve published two books on how to reach new people for Christ: Needs-Based Evangelism (The Good Samaritan Church) and TELL: How to Share Your Faith. I’m going to be doing training all over the country. I’d love to come to your area. Go to our Facebook page and join in sharing comments about our lack of evangelistic effectiveness today and what we can do about it.
Dr. Pierson,
ReplyDeleteThanks for reminding us of what we are here to do...we can never be reminded enough! Blessings to you & on your ministry among us.
Demographics are a sticky problem. With the birthrate for mainstream churches in the 1.6 arena, it is difficult to maintain a population much less grow one. 2.1 is replacement. Even Italy with a heavy Catholic population is disappearing with a rate far below replacement. The USA is at replacement but only because of an Hispanic population that is well above replacement. Caucasian(USA) birthrate is well below replacement. These are troublesome trends.
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