A new national study — conducted by the Family Research Council in partnership with the Cultural Research Center at Arizona Christian University — reveals an erosion of biblical conviction among regular U.S. churchgoers.
Churches have poorly discipled people in stewardship, but they can learn to grow a generosity culture, said David Whiting at the August 28 Thrive Baptist Network Lunch and Learn.
“We hope this article is useful as a kind of grand narrative about what’s going on in the world, a model of how to see global religious change,” Conrad Hackett, one of the authors, told RNS.
I saw the signs of future sin way before we entered the lost years of the congregation my family helped launch when I was in high school. It was certainly not intentional sin. It was all unintentional. We caught it before it became an ongoing sinful practice.
“We have overcomplicated making disciples,” Andy Taylor said to a group of pastors and ministers at a Send Network Conference held in Moore, Oklahoma on September 15th.
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