Revive Your Mainline Congregation

Why are mainline churches in such dire strass. Schieler meets that it is because most churches are doing the same things in the same ways they were doing them 35 to 50 years ago, and she is lack of change has caused declines in mainline churches. For example, the United Church of Christ has lost more than 700,000 members and more than 1,000 churches since 1965. Schilder delineates distinguishing characteristics of living verses dying churches and shares what needs to be done to turn churches around, and how mainline churches are surviving in this current age. He also cantends that there are some basic biblical theological understandings of the nature and mission of the church--many things that churches have ignored or rebelieve against, and reviews the following areas, authority, which mission church deganiates, worship, newardship, Christian education, pastoral congregational care, wider rotation, and building and property.