Decline in US religion shows a ‘leadership problem’: Pastor Andy Stanley | Fox News Video

It's our only hope.

Thank you ma’am, for the update in your neck of the woods. Sometimes my VPN doesn’t allow me to see some videos. While there are may congregations that have very healthy populations, from what I see they are in the minority. I’ll give an example. In the Borough I live when I grew up There were 3 Catholic, 2 Russian Orthodox, and several Protestant Churches… not to mention several smaller nontypical churches. Today we have 1 Catholic that shares a Pastor with a Church in another Borough, 2 Russian Orthodox, 1 Protestant, and 1 nontypical Church’s. Our population is greater than it ever was, so what turned the people against their Religion?

Partly the Church making poor decisions about priests that molested children and a bunch of other reasons where not perfect people made mistakes. The point the speaker in this video states better than I ever could is the evil people who push the one bad thing that happens at a time into a rationalize that makes all too many people question not just being a member of a Church but the existence of God. Too many of our people have fallen into what I call the “Perfect Trap”, that is if a religion isn’t perfect it shouldn’t exist. That’s what atheists and other devil worshipers push. They look to weaken the Church, and they do a damn good job of it.

And that's why if I walk the path of the righteous, what somebody else sees is good. Besides, I'm a pretty silly and kind person who preaches, so I've been able to talk some folks into checking out my church, and m.any have accepted and gone; and returned. I'm in the Memphis area, and we have lots of churches here. That doesn't mean they are full full because we know Memphis has turned into a hell-hole. I live in the outskirts, thank you, Jesus.