ICHABOD, THE GLORY HAS DEPARTED - explores the Age of Apostasy, predicted in 2 Thessalonians 2:3, to attack Objective Faithless Justification, Church Growth Clowns, and their ringmasters. The antidote to these poisons is trusting the efficacious Word in the Means of Grace. John 16:8. Isaiah 55:8ff. Romans 10. Most readers are WELS, LCMS, ELS, or ELCA. This blog also covers the Roman Catholic Church, Eastern Orthodoxy, and the Left-wing, National Council of Churches denominations.
Saturday, October 5, 2013
John Baker - Medal of Honor - From Moline, Illinois.
We Were in Gym Class Together
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Private First Class John Baker, Jr., destroyed six enemy bunkers and saved eight comrades during a firefight to relieve a besieged unit in Tay Ninh Province, South Vietnam, on November 5, 1966. On May 1, 1968, President Johnson awarded him the Medal of Honor.
Episcopalians the Canary in the Coal Mine
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| Bishop Kate was a disaster as a small-time bishop, so they lied about her record and promoted her for Presiding Bishop. Now that disaster has been leveraged on a national and global scale. |
http://www.virtueonline.org/portal/modules/news/article.php?storyid=18085#.UlAPUtJtiSo
Episcopal Church suffers huge losses in domestic membership and attendance numbers
Preliminary figures show more than 4% drop in each category
By Mary Ann Mueller
VOL Special Correspondent
www.virtueonline.org
October 2, 2013
The 2011 Domestic Fast Fact figures show that in recent years (2007-2011) the domestic baptized membership fell 193,703 souls. Another 79,746 souls can be added to that slide bringing the baptized membership of the 2012 domestic portion of The Episcopal Church down to approximately 1,843,300 or a 13% drop from the 2007 figure of 2,116,749 domestic Episcopalians.
As far as average Sunday attendance figures go, TEC's 2011 minuscule uptick of 56 Sunday worshippers was totally wiped out in 2012 by a resounding 32,225 drop in Sunday attendance resulting in an approximate total 625,662 ASA. Since 2007, the ASA has fallen by 14% from 727,822 Sunday worshippers resulting in a loss of 102,160 people in the pews.
Only a few dioceses showed any sort of growth in either baptized membership or Sunday people in the pews. Dioceses showing some growth in baptized members are: Atlanta (52); Florida (124); Kansas (31); Montana (5); Navajoland (29); North Carolina (217); North Dakota (77); Northern California (80); Oklahoma (85); TEC Pittsburgh (71); Texas (131); Upper South Carolina (51); Western Massachusetts (199); and Western New York (33).
Only the Diocese of Tennessee posted gains in both baptized numbers (12) and ASA of (60).
Tennessee also showed a three-year growth in both categories, while Texas showed a three-year growth spurt in baptized membership. Both the Diocese of Oklahoma and the reconstituted Diocese of Pittsburgh reflected a four-year increase in baptized members.
No new figures for South Carolina were available since the diocese seceded from The Episcopal Church late last year following the actions of General Convention. The 2012 Diocese of South Carolina bar graph is nonexistent. However the 2011 figures show South Carolina had a baptized membership of 29,444 with 12,338 attending Sunday worshippers.
TEC dioceses showing an increase in Sunday attendance included: Alaska (33); Chicago (125); Fond du Lac (18); Rio Grande (56); and Nevada (23) showing a three-year upward trend. Bishop William Love also reports that the Diocese of Albany has a 100 ASA uptick, however "reading" the visual bar graph does not reveal that but precise numeric figures will be known when they come out later this year. The imprecise bar graph indicates that Albany has suffered a loss of more than 200 people in the pews on Sundays.
A loss in baptized membership can come from death of current members with no new members being baptized to replace them and fill out their ranks; or from baptized members leaving The Episcopal Church for other Christian denominations, including the Anglican continuum; the ACNA with many dropping out altogether increasing the growing ranks of the unchurched.
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| When the 2009 ELCA convention approved gay marriage and ordination, Local bishop Eaton lied about every aspect of ELCA's new attitude about the issue. The lies of ELCA and bishops like her established the foundation for 20% leaving. |
Good Question for Confessional Lutherans
Funny how the Lutherans who call themselves confessional will brag about going to Fuller to some, but deny it to others.
What does that say about their confession of faith? Their honesty?
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