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The American Church in Crisis: Groundbreaking Research Based on a National Database of over 200,000 Churches
Groundbreaking research based on a national database of over 200,000 churches shows that the overall United States population is growing faster than the church. The director of the American Church Research Project, Dave Olson, has worked to analyze church attendance, showing that it is virtually unchanged from fifteen years ago while our population has grown by fifty-two m
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Hardcover, 237 pages
Published
February 24th 2008
by Zondervan
(first published February 15th 2008)
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Provides an honest look at the state of American churches. It accurately diagnoses the symptoms and some of the causes. It could have, perhaps, done a better job of suggesting cures for these problems.
This is a good book on the topic of the church and the challenges it faces in the 21st century.
Aug 09, 2011
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This was a crazy good book with a very perceptive present/future look at the church. This should be required reading for anyone concerned with the church and the state of religion in America. I was especially impressed with the author's percecptiveness regarding a lot of sensitive subjects. He pulled no punches in his analysis. There were also a lot of really great church planting applications throughout. - Very good book.
The statistics may be depressing, but this is a must read for pastors in order to understand the state of the Church in North America.
Lots of stats . . . number crunching . . . but you need to know.
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