C of E to create 100 new churches to "revive the Christian faith" in England
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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2018/jul/11/c-of-e-to-create-100-new-churches-as-number-of-anglicans-hits-new-low
The £27m plan is part of an ongoing drive to refocus the church on evangelism amid a dramatic decline in the numbers of people regularly attending services and to reform some of its archaic rules.
Among the recipients of grants will be nine new churches modeled on Ignite, a café-style church in Margate, Kent. It was founded 10 years ago to work with marginalized and deprived communities.
Three of the new churches will be in coastal towns: St Peter Port, Guernsey; Herne Bay, Kent; and Sheerness on the Isle of Sheppey.Another three churches will be created on housing estates on the edge of Plymouth, and a further nine in market towns in eastern England. In Swindon, a former railway works building will be converted into a church aimed primarily at people aged under 40.
Glad to see the church finally trying out some crazy and new ideas like helping deprived communities.
Jokes aside the problem isn't lack of churches. I pass about 4 every day walking to work. The problem is no one under the age of 30 wants to associate with an organisation that represents greed, hypocrisy and ignorance.
As someone who grew up a Christian, and who's parents are still involved in the Church (1 even works in a Christian Bookshop) I can say this varies on the sect, for example the Vineyard churches tend to attract younger people, especially in University Towns, however CofE and Methodist churches are struggling, my mother's clientele is pretty much all 50+ people, with no more than 10 at most each day.
In addition to this my grandparents are all Methodist, and on the rare occasions I've been to their churches you've been hard pressed to find people 18-30, and none of those who are that age didn't grow up in the Church.
Statistically religion is dying. Atheism is growing faster world wide than any other "Sect" of belief or non belief.
The only place this trend doesn't hold true is in South America. That's it.
Source: Enlightenment Now by Steven Pinker
One wonders what the NHS would do with this
This is presumably out of the Churches own money considering the only government/tax money they get are to maintain churches and cathedrals.
I find that hard to believe in Middle East, unless you're speaking about only Christianity?
I REALLY, REALLY do not need to see more preachers in the streets of city's and towns.
I wish they would be banned. Sadly, some level of free speech is required. Despite how much I loathe to be yelled at and called in the streets to redeem my sins etc.
No, I'm not speaking only of Christianity.
I told you were the source came from. That's what the data says.
Yeah obviously I had that book right next to me, no idea why I didn't just check that instead of asking.
Not trying to sound like a dick, just making it clear I didn't pull that from my ass.
I will likely be posting a thread in general discussions pushing this book on everyone here. It's not going to change anyones life, but it'll change how they view things they're currently misinformed about.
Here honestly the only preachers on the street you'll see are the kind he's talking about.
Would like to join in that thread whenever you make it, at least to put a different perspective into it if you don't mind, though it may be hard to critique a book I haven't read.
Like I said, this book should be read by everyone here. It will definitively change the dialogue people here have with each other.
It is an inspiring factual look at the human situation and context and goes to great lengths to be as de-biased as possible.
What do you mean?
Religion's natural death is going to be a great thing for humanity.
pikeys steal lead roof tiles of churches because they're basically free money
More churches means more roofs to fix, and they're already fixing like millions a day.
Not wrong but while it's still here we can at least appreciate this Church is actually trying to help unlike the catholic one.
is it though? Religion has played large part in our history for well all of history really. That same old ancient impulse isn't going away, you take it away and people will replace it with something else. Adapting is what religions should do, adapting to the modern world instead of clinging into ancient ways past their best before date.
This defeats the entire purpose of the religion.
This is part of why religion is statistically declining.
And now going to be replaced by Nontheistic fundamentalism to kick off again.
Build a soup kitchen, you'll help more people that way
Honestly, not that much. I mean it is a lot of money, but when you get down to it, you could pretty much revamp one "expensive" department of a single hospital for that much - something like replacing every machine in a radiology department for a medium to large sized district general would set you back about that much if you were doing it through a managed equipment service.
Yes there are benefits of going to church.
That isn't what I'm saying or even really related.
The numbers and statistics show less people going over time. There has been a steady decline for over a century now, and it doesn't seem to be changing at all. It seems to be accelerating.
I am an atheist, but I have nothing against churches or communities like that. I've considered going to, and been invited to, a local church to simply socialize and meet people in my community. There's nothing wrong with the communal aspects of religion, only the larger "organized" nature of our current glut of world religions.
Sounds like a great idea, every Christian will have their very own church all to themselves for a much more personal communion with the divine.
Oh yeah, England still has a state religion. I wonder if reminding people of that might do more to get the disestablishment movement back up.
I bet they're all going to be named "The First Church of x" or "First x Church" like every other Christian church in the world.
Catholic Church is the largest charitable organization on the planet, though
That's why we have The Secret.
Bible 2.0
Why is it always Americans who post this stuff?
Do you no have any idea what's going on in your own country? People in glass houses shouldn't throw stones.
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