Month: May 2022

Let us not give up meeting together, as some are in the habit of doing, but let us encourage one another—and all the more as you see the Day approaching.   (Hebrews 10:25, NIV 1984). 

My Musings – “Let us not give up meeting together.”

• “As some are in the habit of doing.”  It used to be that church attendance statistics were tracked based on weekly attendance.  Now they are tracked by at least monthly.  Clearly, regular church attendance is not given the priority that it once was given.   Covid-19 only contributed to the decline.  One in three “practicing” Christians stopped attending church during COVID-19 (Barna), which begs the question — now that the flock was scattered what will be the “new normal” after the pandemic?  A recent survey found that fewer than half (48 percent) of religiously affiliated Americans who attended services before the COVID-19 outbreak said they would definitely…