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Shifting dynamics, changing landscapes, and the future

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Well that is a very interesting perspective. I do do the blaming something thing that he is talking about, it is hard not to think that we have gone wrong somewhere, when the church is in such a state of decline.

However, I have lived my whole life in the hope of the main point there, that this is a ressurrection situation, that our Lord who is so uniquely good at that, is going to somehow do it regarding the church.
 
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I think it will look different; I see much of our institutional baggage already creaking and cracking under the strain, when we simply don't have the demographics to support them as once we did. But if we can have the humility to be re-shaped and re-imagined, I do hope for that resurrection.
 
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