Mainline Protestant churches are dying, and we love it. One example is the pro-LGBTQ, pro-choice, pro-heresy Episcopal Church. At present, the irrelevant denomination has a median congregational age of 69. With no new blood coming in, and the majority of churches now having less than 40 members, the churches that are surviving are kept open and paying the bills only because congregants keep on dying and willing part of their estates to the church, but soon that well of corpse funding will dry up. This is also true for the PCUSA, whose congregants are almost as old and whose doctrine is equally putrid and gangrenous.
The ELCA is in a similar boat. Having lost nearly half its members since its founding in 1988, they are cruising for a bruising, according to Dwight Zscheile of Luther Seminary. He explains
According to projections from the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America’s (ELCA) Office of Research and Evaluation, the whole denomination will have fewer than 67,000 members in 2050, with fewer than 16,000 in worship on an average Sunday by 2041.
That’s right: according to current trends, the church will basically cease to exist within the next generation.
According to the denomination’s own studies, in less than 20 years the denomination’s numbers will drop precipitously, losing over 98% of their average weekly worshippers and baptized members.
We can’t wait.
