Post Tagged with: "Presbyterian Church of Wales"
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A Prophecy of Church Decline
At the beginning of the New Year, David Robertson, a well-known Free Church of Scotland minister and blogger, gave ten prophecies for 2017 [1]. One of these particularly caught my eye: The Church of Scotland and the Church of England in […]
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Revival is Real
After all the blogs on church decline, I felt I needed to write on something more positive. Not that I am negative about the future of the Christian church. The Lord Jesus promised that his gospel would cover the earth […]
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Why Revivals Stopped in the UK
And The Churches Declined In two previous posts, I showed that the growth of the Presbyterian denomination in Wales came from a sequence of revivals that gave it a high conversion rate. Consequently, its subsequent decline was due to a […]
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Revival and Church Growth – Dealing with Objections
In two previous posts [1,2] I used the growth and decline of the Presbyterian denomination in Wales to put forward two complementary theses: The growth of the church in the UK from the mid-1730s to the 1870s was due […]
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Church Decline Caused By Lack of Revival
In my last blog [1], I showed that the primary cause of decline for the Presbyterian Church of Wales (aka Calvinist Methodists) in the 20th century was due to a large drop in conversions to the church. Additionally, there was […]
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Church Decline Caused by Lack of Conversions
In my last blog, Closing Rural Churches [1], I said that no strategy to reverse church decline would work unless it deals with the root cause of decline, the church’s failure to recruit sufficient people to counteract its losses. In […]
In 1904-5, Moriah chapel was the centre of massive church growth in Wales through a God-sent revival.