Sentences with phrase «of 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.

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

Not exact matches

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.

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.