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MrVersatile48
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This report is from New Zealand & admits that it's "mainly the 'mainline' denominations that refect this" see http://www.crosswalk.com & click news
It talks of the average age of both pastors & congregations & how so much pastoral time is taken up with the sick, dying & bereaved that there's "no time for the new life stuff"
It may interest readers to know that studies show that it is almost exclusively the non-evangelical churches that reflect this picture
Studies show great growth, over the past 40 years, by evangelicals
& spectacular growth by the Pentecostals/Charismatics (who are counted among evangelicals)
Did anyone see last week's synopsis of the amazing Pentecostal explosion seen so spectacularly in Africa, Asia, Latin America?
Here's google result @ it:-
Scholarly articles for Pentecostal church growth explosion spectacularly in Africa, Asia, Latin America
Between Babel and Pentecost, Transnational ... - by Corten - 11 citations
Planet of Slums - by Davis - 28 citations
Religion, Globalization, and Political Culture in the ... - by Haynes - 8 citations
Thy Kingdom Come
Try search @ http://ag.org/top/news/news_start_index.cfm
& @ http://www.operationworld.org
God's Word specifically commands simple, child-like trust in our Heavenly Father & taking Him at His Word
He honours that by "working with them, confirming the faithful preaching of the Word with signs & wonders following" - as in Mark 16:14-20
14Later Jesus appeared to the Eleven as they were eating; he rebuked them for their lack of faith and their stubborn refusal to believe those who had seen him after he had risen.
15He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.
16Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
17And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; 18they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well."
19After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God.
20Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it.
See also many testimonies at http://www.BennyHinn.org & http://www.mcwe.org
& http://www.Eurovision.org & http://www.propheticvision.org
& @ http://www.HeInvites.org & http://www.powertochange.org
Since 19th century German seminaries made 'originality' the criterion for awarding theology degrees, truth has gone out of the window & man-made error has multiplied - even poisoning many churches whose outside labels proclaim them as evangelical
But their preachers spread doubt, not faith, in the Almighty Creator-God & His infalible, inerrant Word, the Bible
Jesus prophesied the fate of this endtime multiplying of fase christs/messiahs/prophets/teachers/brothers - in Matthew 24, etc
See aslo Jude 1
& Ezekiel 34 @ false shepherds
Jesus is the Good Shepherd - remember?
How @ trusting & following Him?
How @ rejecting falsehood, wherever & whoever it comes from?
Back with links...
God bless!
Ian
Must google Pentecostal church growth
It talks of the average age of both pastors & congregations & how so much pastoral time is taken up with the sick, dying & bereaved that there's "no time for the new life stuff"
It may interest readers to know that studies show that it is almost exclusively the non-evangelical churches that reflect this picture
Studies show great growth, over the past 40 years, by evangelicals
& spectacular growth by the Pentecostals/Charismatics (who are counted among evangelicals)
Did anyone see last week's synopsis of the amazing Pentecostal explosion seen so spectacularly in Africa, Asia, Latin America?
Here's google result @ it:-
Scholarly articles for Pentecostal church growth explosion spectacularly in Africa, Asia, Latin America
Between Babel and Pentecost, Transnational ... - by Corten - 11 citations
Planet of Slums - by Davis - 28 citations
Religion, Globalization, and Political Culture in the ... - by Haynes - 8 citations
Thy Kingdom Come
Try search @ http://ag.org/top/news/news_start_index.cfm
& @ http://www.operationworld.org
God's Word specifically commands simple, child-like trust in our Heavenly Father & taking Him at His Word
He honours that by "working with them, confirming the faithful preaching of the Word with signs & wonders following" - as in Mark 16:14-20
14Later Jesus appeared to the Eleven as they were eating; he rebuked them for their lack of faith and their stubborn refusal to believe those who had seen him after he had risen.
15He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the good news to all creation.
16Whoever believes and is baptized will be saved, but whoever does not believe will be condemned.
17And these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; 18they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people, and they will get well."
19After the Lord Jesus had spoken to them, he was taken up into heaven and he sat at the right hand of God.
20Then the disciples went out and preached everywhere, and the Lord worked with them and confirmed his word by the signs that accompanied it.
See also many testimonies at http://www.BennyHinn.org & http://www.mcwe.org
& http://www.Eurovision.org & http://www.propheticvision.org
& @ http://www.HeInvites.org & http://www.powertochange.org
Since 19th century German seminaries made 'originality' the criterion for awarding theology degrees, truth has gone out of the window & man-made error has multiplied - even poisoning many churches whose outside labels proclaim them as evangelical
But their preachers spread doubt, not faith, in the Almighty Creator-God & His infalible, inerrant Word, the Bible
Jesus prophesied the fate of this endtime multiplying of fase christs/messiahs/prophets/teachers/brothers - in Matthew 24, etc
See aslo Jude 1
& Ezekiel 34 @ false shepherds
Jesus is the Good Shepherd - remember?
How @ trusting & following Him?
How @ rejecting falsehood, wherever & whoever it comes from?
Back with links...
God bless!
Ian
Must google Pentecostal church growth