Mainstream green organizations» varied legislative and legal victories — and their cumulative membership rolls of some 10 million - plus — don't cut it for S&N. (grist.org)
Indeed, the recent record of church growth in Africa is a direct contrast to that of the old - line churches in the U.S., whose membership rolls are ailing and whose real dollars for mission are diminishing. (religion-online.org)
Is this the picture of the American church having forgotten the wonder of the Exodus, grumbling over the quality of the Wednesday night fellowship meals, over styles of worship, over theological niceties, anxious about tight budgets and membership rolls while a world starves for bread and Bread? (religion-online.org)