by Haruo » Sun Jul 30, 2017 8:35 pm
Membership drops may be due to an increased willingness to purge the rolls (which may be either ideologically or realistically motivated), or due to a decreased emphasis on encouraging newcomers to actually *join* the church, or due to population declines in areas replete with SBC churches, or due to a number of other factors I can imagine and probably many I can't, and/or to any combination of these. Other denominations that have not seen an increase in Calvinism have also experienced similar drops of late. So I'm not sure how much concern one ought to have, or where any vengeful impulses ought to be directed.
And of course while Calvinism may seem to remove the impetus to evangelism, it may be that if one is predestined from before the foundation of the world to be evangelically inclined, one will be so, regardless of one's theology.
Haruo = Leland Bryant Ross
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