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THREE REASONS WHY PEWS ARE EMPTYING; ONE REASON THEY SHOULDN'T.
I recently had an opportunity to speak with a young man at his grandmother's funeral. He was wrestling with issues of faith and of knowing.
Earlier in the month I had spoken to the spouse of an active church member and he pointedly told me he had been forced to go to Church in his youth by a very strict guardian and he had no intention of ever going again.
On more than one occasion I've been told that you don't have to go to church to be a Christian. I used to think that was patently false. Now I think it is iust sad. It is sad because the church isn't a place most people want to go to anymore.
Statistics show church attendance continues to drop and even those who are considered regular attendees only show up once or twice a month. At first we blamed junior sports teams and then Sunday shopping, both of which occupied people at...