British Christianity isn’t dying. It’s sleeping. Evangelism can awaken it

May 29, 2016 by Jill

By Tim Stanley, Telegraph:

British Christianity is in pretty poor shape. A UK Social Attitudes survey has revealed that, for the first time in history, more people now regard themselves as having “no religion” than being a Christian. A cultural shift is to blame: people raised in the faith but who don’t practice it have ceased to identify with it. In other words, they’re just being honest. Church attendance has been plummeting since the 1960s; hardly anyone baptises their kids anymore. Britain is slouching towards Gomorrah.

But is Christianity in terminal decline? No. Those who say it is always compare its present state to around 1850-1960, when church attendance could almost be called a “normal” or “average” activity. But the history of British Christianity is actually one of peaks and troughs – and understanding how and why it has yo-yoed up and down helps us understand a bit better what we’re witnessing today.

Compare the state of today’s Christian churches to 1900 and things look bad. Compare them to the 18^th century and things look pretty average.

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