Post Tagged with: "Extinction"
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UK Church Decline and Progressive Ideology
Some churches in the UK are being influenced by the prevailing progressive ideology in Western culture. How does denominational growth and decline relate to acceptance of progressive ideas? This question is addressed examining the denominations’ approach to marriage.
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Growth, Decline and Extinction of UK Churches
Christianity is declining in the UK. In particular, the numbers participating in churches are decreasing each year. Of course, not all denominations are declining. A few are growing. What is […]
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Church Growth Limited by Inadequate Resource Production
Limits to Church Growth 3 In two previous blogs, I looked at congregational growth being limited by: Demand from society [1]; Supply by the church [1]; Lack of enthusiasts [2]. […]
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Institutionalism and Church Decline
In a recent post, Gillan Scott, deputy editor of the Archbishop Cranmer blog, suggested that the Church of England might be more interested in managing decline than engaging in mission […]
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Decline of the Church of England – Update 2001-2012
A year ago I applied the Limited Enthusiasm Model church growth to the decline of the Church of England, based on its published attendance figures 2001-2011 [1]. Since then Statistics […]
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George Carey and Church Decline
It is not often church decline makes the national newspapers, but when a former Archbishop says the church is on the brink of extinction I guess such news is too […]
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The Decline of the Church of England
The decline of the Church of England has been well publicised for many years. Because of the connections between church and state the future survival of the church is of […]