The Reformation of the Church in America

It isn’t simply political restructuring in America. There’s additionally a profound reorganization of church buildings.

For many of our nation’s historical past, we now have labeled church buildings into two broad classes: denominational and non-denominational. It was neat, easy, and cozy. For those who have been a Christian, you belonged to a church in one in all two fundamental denominations. Labels match properly.

Then, within the denominational class, we had two fundamental teams: Mainline and “Different” (not all church buildings on this latter class think about themselves “Evangelical”).

There was additionally the notion, largely right, that the mainline church buildings have been declining and the “different” church buildings weren’t. These assumptions not maintain right this moment. Mainline church buildings do not simply decay; They’re quickly declining. In 1970, mainline church buildings made up 30% of the US inhabitants with about 62 million members. By 2000, the baseline share was lower in half to 16%