Not exact matches
And if congregations find themselves
in the midst of
numerical decline, it's because they have failed to come to terms with their changing circumstances.
My own Baptist church had been
in a state of very serious
numerical decline since the early 1950s.
I realise this is a crude
numerical perspective and the figures can be misconstrued but my instincts are to conclude that a
decline in performance this season is down to our away performances and the most bleedin obvious explanation for this is the
decline in our inability to score goals away from home — with the exception of the 5 away games played so far this year — where we see it is the number of goals conceded away from home that is the main problem.
(http://blackjay.net/?p=335)(2) The «Bomb Test Curve» of
declining 14C
in the atmosphere indicates that CO2 has a half - time
in the atmosphere of only 10 years, not the hundreds of years of the Bern Model used
in numerical climate models.
As detailed
in this post and others linked therein, there are many
numerical indicators of recent
declines in the use of the death penalty
in the United States.