Above mentioned, that is servitude. And he said to them, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. In 2007, there were over 320,000 churches. This means that in the United States there is a conglomerate of churches in every community, presumably, one on every corner. If Christians served communities through service and outreach, the result would be evident in our churches and society as a whole. One could venture to deduce that the world would be very different if the presence of Christians in every neighborhood met the needs of the community. It is clear that Christians do not serve their population enough. This generation is currently known as the unchurched generation and it is my belief that the issue is bigger than education. Millennials are leaving the fold, and more than a third of millennials now say they are unaffiliated with any faith. The United States is now in third place, after China and India, in terms of the number of people who do not profess to be Christians; in other words, the United States is becoming an ever-growing “unreached people group.” Nearly all major branches of Christianity in the United States have lost substantial numbers of members, and half of all churches in the United States have added no new parishioners to their rosters in the past two years.
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