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Symptoms Of A Dying Church Analysis

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Symptoms of a Dying Church Belcher, Jim (Belcher, 2009). “Deep Church: A Third Way Beyond Emerging and Traditional.” In this book, there is a profound analysis of how the emerging church thinks about what is causing the church to die and not make disciples. The term tribalism describes how traditional churches have lost their salt and light. Tribalism denotes that the church is only concerned about those who look, and act like them. “The church is known for what it is against more than what it is for. It has lost its ability to be countercultural, to model a different way of life and to actually create beauty.” (p.43). Budiselic, Ervin (Budiselic, 2013). “A Proper Understanding of the Gospel as the Key for Healthy Church Evangelism, Life and …show more content…

“Equipping the Next Generation to Speak Their Faith Aloud.” The journal points out one of the problems of a dying church is that usually it does not have a next generation to equip to speak their faith. When a church is dying, what remains are the faithful few members that have been there for a long time. Unfortunately, over time there has been a disconnect between the present generation and the future generation. Kit Carlson in her research for her thesis. had a conversation with Christians under the age of forty. How do we get Christians engage that are Generation X (born between 1965 and 1979) and Millennials (born between 1980 and 2000)? Carlson notice that these two groups were not interested in the traditional church approach to evangelism but wanted to have a conversation. They wanted to explore the faith they already had without any rigid structured format. They also wanted to question the churches’ doctrines about social issues and theology. This approach can create a problem with what the writer’s statement of the problem. The writer has a builders and Boomer generation that was discussed earlier. Builders and boomers have a problem with the questioning of authority and church doctrine because it was accepted as being true. Dying churches will have to let go of their traditional ideas of what is church if they expect to reach the demographics that were born between nineteen sixty-five and two

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The article, Top 10 church faux pas that turn off millennials, written by Jeremy Steele highlighted points that millennials are looking for a deeper meaning above themselves and are avoiding all negative comments that seek to undermine their generation. When Steele suggests, “ Focus on emotions... If you don’t come across as truly passionate about what you’re saying, millennials will likely tune out.” I agree with this statement fully because new age audiences want to feel what they are hearing about is something the speaker has so much emotion towards. They want the realization that what they are listening to has made an impact on the one telling the information.

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Christians today are perceived much differently now than they were in past generations. In his book UnChristian, David Kinnaman reveals what the current standings of young outsiders, or those that do not identify with Christianity, are about Christians in comparison to past generations (referred to in the book as “Mosaics” or “Busters” depending on the year of their birth). Though unfortunate, this faith is seen more as club or a social circle of the elite rather than a group of people faithful to their beliefs. Several negative issues that young outsiders perceive of Christians are presented in UnChristian.

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“Church” is a term that is used to identify Christians that exist in different parts of the world and is synonymous with the terms “body of Christ,” and the “ecclesia.” This suggests that the people who form the Church are persons of the body of Christ as mentioned in 1 Corinthians 12:27 and Romans 12:5. In this paper I focus on the purpose and calling of the Church, the relationship of people in position as pastors with the congregation (that is,

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Alan and Debra Hirsh make the reader think about being a child of God. Hirsh hits home when he suggest that churches in the western world needs to step back and evaluate and examine what we are doing. Are we really chasing after Jesus in our worship service or are we continuing to live the American dream? Hirsh demonstrates that you do not have to be an overseas missional minded disciple.

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Are they in harmony with the sympathies of Christ? or are they swayed and perverted by the sophistries of worldly policy?” Putting morality over the system. Religion preaches mercy and equality under one God and by asking questions like “Shall the church of Christ hear in silence the taunt that is thrown at them, and shrink away from the helpless hand that they stretch out;...” she is reminding them that they can create a change too, and showing that they forging their principles if they support

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It is through this that one sees a direct challenging of comments seen elsewhere, where the church is continuously giving reasons why they are unable to help youths including youth disinterest, church alienation as a natural part of youth experience, and so on (Lincoln). The youth in the community, particularly

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