Harper: One reason liberal religion is dying
Rev. Daniel Harper gives One reason liberal religion is dying.Why is liberal religion is fading from the American scene? There’s more than one reason, but I’m not going to point the finger of blame at some other group. I’m going to look at my own profession, ministry, and show how we ministers are helping to cause the decline of liberal religion.He may well be right, as far as he goes. My church is about 125 members (could be quite a few more, but we do a pretty good job of paring down the membership list to reflect only people who really are acting as members). We've said for a while that we're a small church acting as a medium church in a physical environment suited to a large church. Besides our senior minister, we have a wonderful affiliate minister as well as a new ministerial intern, all of whom - by and large - play the roles to which they are best suited.
As was conceptually noted in The Almost Church, we'd quickly be large if we could manage to keep a significant number of those people who walk into our church for the first time each Sunday morning.
posted by Paul Wilczynski @ 12:31 PM
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