The Pastor’s Heart with Dominic Steele
Religion & Spirituality:Christianity
The massive drop in church attendance is a crisis facing churches across the Western World and there are external pressures and internal weaknesses that need to be addressed at every level of the church.
We highlighted a few months ago the attendance drop in Sydney Anglican Evangelical Churches in the last ten years.
Raj Gupta first called it a plateau problem. But the data released at last September’s Synod shows it’s now much worse. From a high in 2015, attendance in 2019 was down 7.5 percent. And in 2022, attendance was down a further ten percent.
https://www.thepastorsheart.net/podcast/sydney-anglicans-now-where-how-raj-zac
Even allowing for a covid factor even assuming some sort of bounce back these are figures that we should talk about.
Andrew Heard, the senior pastor of EV Church on the Central Coast, has challenged Evangelical Anglican leaders in Sydney to look at their hearts, head and hands, saying there’s a heart problem and a skill deficit.
https://www.thepastorsheart.net/podcast/problems-of-heart-head-and-hands-andrew-heard
David Rietveld is senior pastor of Dapto Anglican Church to the South of Sydney, and the author of ‘Being Christian after Christendom.’
https://wipfandstock.com/9781666762983/being-christian-after-christendom/
http://www.thepastorsheart.net/podcast/threats-and-weaknesses-David-Rietveld
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