Robinson Avenue Blog

29 Sep

Reversing the Trend

Are churches loosing members? David Roozen, director of the Harford Institute for Religion Reasearch, compared a survey of 14,000 Protestant churches in 2000 and compared another study of 11,000 churches in 2010. He released his findings and shared that the median number in Sunday worship dropped a little more than 20%. He points out that 1 in 4 religious institutions have less than 50 in attendance. "The decline hit across religious and denominational lines, sparing no one", Roozen wrote.

9 Jun

To Be or not to be...Relevant - Reflections from the book "In the Name of Jesus"

"The tempter came to him and said, 'If you are the Son of God, tell these stones to become bread,' Jesus answered, 'It is written: "'Man does not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.'"