Attraction Quote by Eddie Gibbs

Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual…

— Alan Hirsch

For me, and maybe for many religious kids of the '60s, the church lost relevance the more it became a surrogate in the movement…

— Mike McCurry

It's just silly to look at the incredibly steep decline in the mainline and the clear institutional weakening of Catholicism in the 1960s and…

— Ross Douthat

The Christian church in the U.S. is still strong numerically, but it has lost its decisive influence both in American public life and in…

— Os Guinness

To a large extent, the American church has become merged with the world. It has adopted so many of the world's ideals and standards…

— Billy Graham

“the United Church of Christ, has gone from more than two million members in 1957 (the year two denominations merged to form the current…

— Emily C. Heath

If outside forces and culture were the reasons behind declining and non-influential churches, we would likely have no churches today. The greatest periods of…

— Thom S. Rainer

Due to our consumer mindset, people are prone to jump from church to church, which weakens the church overall.

— Francis Chan

No time in history has the Church of Jesus Christ gone down!

— Loren Cunningham

The short-term impact is that people are encouraged to give the Church another look. It's up to the liveliest parts of the Church -…

— George Weigel

For Christians to be linked in association with ministries who do not preach the gospel of Christ is to incur moral guilt. A Union…

— Charles Haddon

The Church seems to totter to its fall, almost all life extinct. On this occasion, any complaisance would be criminal which told you, whose…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson