Sentences with phrase «numerical decline»

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.

Statisticians tell us that most streams within the church in the US are in numerical decline.

Substantial numerical decline in South Australian rabbit populations following the detection of rabbit haemorrhagic disease virus 2

But the implicit message is unmistakable: congregations must come to terms with their changing social contexts or pay the price of numerical decline.

Leach says that one of the reasons behind the broad changes to today's theological education is «the reduced financial resources available to the churches for achieving their goals due to their numerical decline».

However, the numerical decline of self - identified American Christianity is more of a purifying bloodletting than it is an arrow to the heart of the church.

The remaining moderate and strong tropical cyclones reveal a numerical decline since the late 1980s, but the trend is not statistically significant.