/christian/ - Christian Discussion and Fellowship

all heresies die out in due time

>>548316

Conservative churches are growing

>>548316

God baptizes His remnant through fire and spirit. The church of Christ is always started small.

>>548316

Protestantism is a candle burning out on both ends, perhaps burning on three different fronts.

The group of protestants once closest to classical christianity, the mainlines, have cucked themselves being recognition.

Those still conservative are theologically sloppy even when coming to correct conclusions, see the Nashville statement.

And then there are the fucking nutters like the snake charmers and Pentecostals and the thoroughly non christian groups that have grown out of it like Mormons and JWs.

>>548316

> We could take over the Episcopalian Church and make piracy a sacrament

I'm going to need you to explain this anon.

>>548316

…All of these articles except for the Methodist one (which just states that the Methodist Church is growing but most of the new members aren't white) are about liberal versions/synods of Protestant denoms shrinking while their more conservative counterparts grow. I don't see how any of these argue that Protestantism itself is dying.

That said, I'm not surprised. The Church is supposed to be a pillar that stands strong against worldliness. No wonder the more conservative forms of Protestantism are growing as the world becomes increasingly subjectivist and disgusting.

>>548348

It's just like lobbying caucusing for Ron Paul, but with a few more steps. See:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Convention_of_the_Episcopal_Church_in_the_United_States_of_America

Once the real disintegration begins, they'll be strapped for Priests and Bishops. That's when /christian/ shows up and offers to fill that void for a desperate church.

<"Yes sir, I'm a devout Episcopalian. I sure can't wait to poz some negholes!"

If you do it right, they'll believe you. From there, we just quietly wait for the next General Convention. Finally, we cast a few votes, change the rules to our liking, and we have our very own imageboard church WITH Apostolic Succession.

>>548351

Delete this!

The "apostolics" need to have a false sense of security, so maybe in the mist of everything they'll time reflecting themselves of the heresy they follow.

> except for the Methodist one (which just states that the Methodist Church is growing but most of the new members aren't white) a

Just to clarify: It says that it's growing among non-whites, but still ultimately declining.

>>548353

>Anglican

>Apostolic Succession

>>548354

(You)

>>548316

Honestly, good. The mainline churches are being replaced by the evangelical churches, and the evangelical churches are ten times better than the mainline, even with the common Israeliphilia pervading the evangelical churches

>>548323

Refreshingly accurate

Thank God. Liberalism is a cancer - if you are not conservative and legalistic you have no strong belief in Christ, you're just full of doubts. No wonder these churches are shrinking.

All these churches have been pushing for modernity. The paradox of being fishers of men is that the more you try to modernize your belief, the more you push people away, because you do away with the core message. Contrast this with evangelical protestant churches, which are the only ones, afaik, that have growth.

>>548326

>Nashville statement

Do you mean the Council of Nashville?

>>548351

This. As a Lutheran, I'm happy to see the ELCgAy shrink into obscurity. They were nominal Lutheran anyway. Not even Confessional. LCMS and WELS will be the future merger when? and I am very excited for that.

>>548892

>Catholics abandoning their religion faster than the atheist-nigger plague proliferates.

I don't know what causes it, but so many Catholics seem so eager to abandon their religion for… anything. It's not just irreligion, either. Most of your Buddhists, neopagans, and such are ex-Catholics. Vatican II really screwed that religion over.

Benedict XVI was Based, though. As this thing with Peter the Roman unfolds, he's going to come back and save the Church. He's probably got a team of Nazi scientists that he met in the Hitler youth engineering a weapon that can kill the Anti-Christ. When his Right Wing Catholicism Squads take on the Vatican Guard, that's your cue to go indoors. Three Days of Darkness will begin if dubs.

ALL YOUR CLAPPING WILL BECOME LITURGY AND YOUR BARE WALLS WILL HAVE ICONS

>>548922

Holy shit check those digits!

>>548316

Media vita in morte sumus

>>548384

>The mainline churches are being replaced by the evangelical churches, and the evangelical churches are ten times better than the mainline

But the Evangelicals are in decline too

https://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/2017/1010/Amid-Evangelical-decline-growing-split-between-young-Christians-and-church-elders

>The number of white evangelical Protestants fell from about 23 percent of the US population in 2006 to 17 percent in 2016, and only 11 percent are under 30, according to a survey of more than 100,000 Americans.

>>549658

>((("Christian" "Science")))

>>549659

It's backed by the stats though

https://www.prri.org/research/american-religious-landscape-christian-religiously-unaffiliated/

>>548892

I've met more ex-catholics than ex-protestants in my life, and I live in a catholic-dominant area.

>>548465

>nominal

They're not even confessional. Sad!