Nathan E. Lewis

Sermons preached by Nathan Lewis at Evergreen Church in Beaverton and Chehalem Valley Church in Newberg, Oregon, 2006
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“Global Christianity in the 21st Century”
Presented by Nathan E. Lewis
Resurrection Sunday, March 27, 2005

What is your view of Christianity and the Church today? Is the Church in decline? Why hasn’t a revival come to North America in a very long time? Is the evangelical movement dead? American sociologists have assessed most Church growth in the past 20 years in America to be transfer growth, members of one church joining the membership of another. The Canadian Mennonite University at the turn of the century published the decline of Church members in Canada. In 1900, 90% of Canadians were members of a church. From 1981 to 1991, the United Church of Canada, the largest Canadian denomination, lost 650,000 members. England was the missionary force of the 19th century. In 2003 England was home to 1 million church members and 750,000 members of the mosque. As our missionaries to Berlin, Jay and Holly Eastman, have reported, Western Europe is overwhelmingly agnostic to atheist. What is the present state of Christianity and the Church?

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