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Originally Posted by Charnock
Again, we have not grown AT ALL over the past ten years. We have almost the exact same amount of churches now as we did then. We have grown our ministerial roster a bit.
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Correct me if I'm wrong.
The ministerial roster is growing simply on the basis of awarding preaching licences correct?
If that assumption is correct, and based on my limited experience, a licence can be obtained by anyone willing to read a list of books, or anyone who has attended Bible "college", which in my again, limited experience, has been that some of these folks attending Bible college are somewhat flaky, seeming rather to prefer what they thing is a career of paid preaching over the actual responsibility of getting a job. When they find out thats not how it works, many of them are simply lay people with preaching licences.
In the end you have a bigger "roster" but fewer churches, and all the bigger or established churches are either 1)leaving the org or 2)going liberal, ignoring the teachings of the org, while NOT leaving. The end result is that there continues to be a steep decline in "quality" ministers and "quality" churches, (I use quality for lack of a better term).
In short there isn't any growth, so they produce dime a dozen young ministers eager to get a preaching license as their proof of "growth".
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