July 31, 2015

The church is in trouble.

It must be. My blog feed keeps telling me it is.

For several years now, barely a day goes by without someone writing about the imminent demise of the body of Christ.

Everyone seems to have a different reason why they think the church is dying:

The “nones” are growing faster than the church
The “dones” are leaving faster than we’re replacing them
People aren’t singing together any more
Offerings are way down
Regulars attend less often than they used to
Millennials – well where do we begin with their so-called problems?

But despite all the gloom-and-doom, I have not lost one moment of sleep over the demise of the church. Here are 13 reasons not to worry (there are more, but I had to stop somewhere):