Pentecostal church – Some View on the World

Evangelical Alliance experiencing record growth in the UK

If we look at the aa number of churchgoers, we see that they have fallen sharply in recent years. But remarkably, at the beginning of this century, the Pentecostal movement and some other evangelical churches were still able to attract a good number of young people. What is hugely noticeable is that the CatholicContinue reading “Evangelical Alliance experiencing record growth in the UK”

Kids’ Worship versus Kids’ Liturgy

When churches don’t plan to have children present, they probably ought not be building a new building, but should consider why they would exclude children from their service.

American churches closing their doors for good

some decades ago mega-churches became very popular and took away church members from the smaller churches. But now we see that the death knell of those mega-churches is the cultural idols of individualism and privacy that rule their fellowship.

500 Years of Reformation Divisions Have Lost Much of Their Potency

After 500 Years, Reformation-Era Divisions Have Lost Much of Their Potency Theological differences diminished to a degree that might have shocked Christians in past centuries. As Protestants prepare to mark the 500th anniversary of the Reformation, new Pew Research Center surveys show that in both Western Europe and the United States, the theological differences thatContinue reading “500 Years of Reformation Divisions Have Lost Much of Their Potency”

Problems attracting and maintaining worshippers

The urgency to reach people with the Gospel can, if the church is not faithful and watchful, tempt us to subvert the Gospel by redefining its terms. We are not honest if we do not admit that the current cultural context raises the cost of declaring the Gospel on its own terms. Jim Hinch writes:Continue reading “Problems attracting and maintaining worshippers”

Small churches of the few Christadelphians

The big difficulty we do encounter in Belgium is that when people do ask where we meet with how many, they hesitate to come to our meetings because we are not with enough people attending a service. They all prefer to come to a church where they can hide in the massa’s of people. WhenContinue reading “Small churches of the few Christadelphians”