In John Chapter 6 most people rejected Jesus because of his teaching. Being faithful to the truth is more important. Numerical growth is not an automatic sign of God's favour, nor is the truth changed by who believes it or not. Even if every person in the world believes something that is not true, that thing is still not true. Having said that I think the Anglican church is being both fast and loose with the truth and experiencing numerical decline. God Bless
This secularisation has been going on for quite a while. I was a bit surprised that the figure for Christian is so high. For many years if people did not declare a religion they were simply put down on forms as C of E - Church of England. I think people would tend to put that onto censs forms as a sort of default.
I'm not the most knowledgeable but have followed a little and from what I do know, I think Welby has done a decent job with a global denomination that is very divided right now. He is balancing the concerns of the bishops in Africa and elsewhere with the concerns of those in Western countries where there is a push towards gay marriage and so forth. He seems to be truly trying to listen to everyone and prayerfully examine what they're saying. Sure, that's made a lot of people on both sides unhappy.
I'm sure it depends on where you live, but almost nobody I know outside of church is a practicing Christian.
No, your Australian curriculum is much like the English and it seems to do well in educating students about many varieties of religion. As an American, I learned about the Reformation for about a day in High School, Judaism from a girlfriend in College, and Islam the day or so my children spent on it in their High School, most recently Buddhism from my brother and his Vietnamese wife.
Most certainly. There are a few church-goers among my friends but we don't speak of it much. I am not sure how to gauge any changes in society attributable to a decline in church membership or observance. I certainly cannot distinguish my church-going friends from the rest by their conduct.
Sounds good. Ours is generally run like any government undertaking. I think it was in the 2010 Census that the US Census Bureau invested heavily in handheld data collectors for house-to-house census (maybe 2000 - the years start to lump together). This was for the device and software, including development. Except these devices already existed, and were used by meter readers. All that was necessary would be to customize an off-the-shelf device, which many of these companies did for utilities, anyway.
Some people talk of a 'spiritual vacum'. If Christianity, practising and nominal fall away then some will turn to something else, to fill the void. The bible says in Ecclesiastes 3:11 that God has set eternity in the heart of man.
Some people talk of a 'spiritual vacum'. If Christianity, practising and nominal fall away then some will turn to something else, to fill the void. The bible says in Ecclesiastes 3:11 that God has set eternity in the heart of man.
it seems Islam is rising in England. If you had issues with Christianity wait until we see the Caliphate of England! England has a greater % of Muslims now than Spain did when they became a Muslim country.
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