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Originally Posted by tweetiepooh
I think I'd agree that "religion" is on the wane in the sense that membership for the sake of membership is dropping. But faith is growing as evidenced by the increase in attendance at, what I describe, "alive churches".
I know that other Christians on here would also not describe their faith as religion but as relationship. It's more about being in relationship with God (through Jesus) than attending services or following rules.
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Absolutely. And the churches that are growing are the ones who believe that the whole of the Bible is the Divinely Inspired Word of God and the attendees have a personal relationship with Jesus.
The churches that are declining are those who are fudging the Word to appease political correctness. They are not preaching the true Gospel and not teaching the Word of God
It's strange, that in the days when many people are into 'supernatural spirituality', most are ignoring the most supernatural book in the world, the Bible. They relegate it to a history book, when in reality very much alive and active today.
This seems pretty relevant today:
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But mark this: There will be terrible times in the last days. People will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, proud, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, without love, unforgiving, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not lovers of the good, treacherous, rash, conceited, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God— having a form of godliness but denying its power. Have nothing to do with such people
2 Timothy 3 1-5 New International Version (NIV)
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