I was skimming through The Great Evangelical Recession: 6 Factors that will Crash the American Church…and How to Prepare (Baker) by John S. Dickerson and I found things he had to say to be quite chilling. Dickerson is far from a fear mongering “Chicken Little” crying out “The sky is falling;” rather, the guy has done his homework. Looking at various studies on the evangelical Christian church, picking out the common trends observed through those studies, Dickerson forecasts, In the next decade we will see a massive decease in evangelical influence politically, economically, culturally, and financially… We are losing influence because we are shrinking. We are losing influence because the host culture is changing so much faster than we (or even it) can understand. We are losing influence because the United States population is booming faster than it was during the Baby Boom, and our movement is not keeping up with the growth....
