A lot of churches have not moved with the times.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.
While attendance at traditional churches has been declining for decades... the evangelical movement is growing, and it is changing the way America worships.
As of essential importance in town churches which are not at all equally necessary in the country.
Wherever you've got a state church, you have empty churches.
Every day people are straying away from the church and going back to God.
The quality of the Lord's church on earth, cannot be seen by any man, so long as he lives in the world, still less how the church in process of time has turned aside from good to evil.
The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.
It's very difficult to determine whether this is the fault of the world that has abandoned the Church, or the Church that does not know how to relate to the world.
Political organizations have slowly substituted themselves for the Churches as the places for believing practices. Politics has once again become religious.
Ten years ago, 15 years ago, I think the church would have been asleep at the switch. This level of activism and engagement with the needs of society by local churches I never thought I'd see it in my lifetime.