Numbers in New empty tomb Book Locate the Heart of the Dying Church s Choice: Serve God, in Jesus Name, With Money on a Scale With Global Need or Serve Money
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Data in empty tomb s new book, as well as various surveys, point to trends suggesting the church in the U.S. is dying. The church can serve God, in Jesus name, with money to reach global child-death reduction goals. Or the church can continue present patterns.
The State of Church Giving through 2018 Fig. 9 and Fig. 14
The new empty tomb book concludes that the church will not reverse these trends unless it helps people integrate their money with their faith in God.
Heart of dying church’s choice: serve God with $s on global need scale or serve money
Numbers in empty tomb’s latest book point to downward trends in church giving and membership. To change the trends, the church needs to serve God with money by offering a vision on a scale with global need that will capture the imaginations and attract the giving of members and those still identifying with the church. It will, however, take initial leadership from individual venture philanthropists to mobilize such a counterstrategy to engage the entrenched patterns.
The negative trends found in the data analyzed by empty tomb are echoed in various surveys. For example, a recent survey by Dr. George Barna finds many Americans combining “Moralistic Therapeutic Deism” with traditional Christianity, and 43% of Millennials “Don’t know, care, or believe that God exists.” Noting this emergence of “radically redefined” institutions, including churches, Barna states: “From a nationwi
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