Group Warns Canada Will Lose 9,000 Churches | AIG

For years now, during my presentations, I’ve shown pictures of church buildings across the United Kingdom that have been turned into studios, nightclubs, storefronts, and more. With church attendance dwindling, many UK churches have been forced to close their doors. And now a national heritage group in Canada is warning that the same thing is happening there.

This group claims an estimated 9,000 “religious spaces”—that’s a third of “faith-owned buildings” in the nation—will be lost within a decade and that this will affect “every community in the country.”This loss is attributed to church members aging and “the increasing secularization of society coupled with new spiritual practices.” The church simply isn’t impacting the culture like it used to and younger generations increasingly want nothing to do with it. Actually, these trends are happening through the whole Western world.

Many mainline Protestant denominations believe this is happening because the church needs to be more “inclusive.” So they disregard biblical truth and become “inclusive” spaces, for example, for those in the LGBT community. This means they no longer teach the truth of God’s Word but ignore it in favor of supporting people in a sinful lifestyle. We see this same loose handling of God’s Word in many churches when it comes to Genesis. But this watering down of God’s Word isn’t helping churches grow!The largest denomination in Canada, the United Church of Canada, has been inclusive of LGBT people and has even supported abortion for decades (they also have at least one atheist pastor), but their congregations are still shrinking.The answer to growing secularization of the culture and declining church attendance is not to secularize the church. . . .

Source: National Heritage Group Warns Canada Will Lose 9,000 Churches | Answers in Genesis