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 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 National Council of Churches.
Doubtless many have changed the the lucks of their areas. I recalled several old warhorse churches in Moline, once big and now in ruins. No one would have guessed that in the 1950 onward.
Denominations have even less sparkle than what they promoted for those glitzy days. They were bound to collect the response of their attractions. No?
Many of us hardly add up the numbers and wonder when the nose-dives will last.
