Tuesday, March 4, 2008

Changing Church Venues

The Christian Post reports that new survey has broken down America's church attendance to reflect the growing number of "church" options that have redefined how Christians worship on Sunday. American Christians are increasingly adopting house churches, marketplace ministries and cyberchurches as places of worship and ministry. The new Barna survey, released Monday, contends that popular measures about who is "unchurched" are out of date. "The fact that millions of people are now involved in multiple faith communities -- for instance, attending a conventional church one week, a house church the next, and interacting with an online faith community in-between -- has rendered the standard measures of "churched" and "unchurched" much less precise," The Barna Group noted.

  • JJ Commentary: As government further muzzles the Church to restrict the preaching and teaching of the full gospel (e.g. homosexuality, political issues), it will be the larger, traditional churches that will suffer the most. The end-times Remnant will increasingly meet in smaller, non-traditional venues.

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