The Godcast, Episode 373: The Church's Demographic Cliff

Are American churches doomed to extinction? Today, Super live-reacts to a video claiming that very thing for a, uh, *certain* denomination. Let's chat about the problem of aging congregations, pastor shortages, and hostile cultural shifts.  Emails in the second half! Stuff we talked about: The video in question: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yp2O0mj6-Go Pew Research's religious landscape survey: https://www.pewresearch.org/religious-landscape-study/religious-denomination/lutheran-church-missouri-synod/ https://www.pewresearch.org/religious-landscape-study/religious-family/lutheran-family-mainline-trad/ The ELCA copes about the former failure to assimilate: https://learn.elca.org/jle/german-lutherans-and-assimilation-lessons-in-the-current-atmosphere-of-islamophobia/ A mainline pretending to be conservative: https://fatherhollywood.blogspot.com/2006/09/tradition-female-deacons-and-where-is.html?m=1  Various thoughts on the decline:  https://sowhatfaith.com/2023/06/15/the-elca-is-missing-4-million-people/ https://concordiatheology.org/2023/07/the-future-of-the-missouri-synod/ Our Tare Parade episode: https://amerikaner.org/the-godcast-episode-316-the-tare-parade/ An attempt to laugh off the decline: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4rSVp86PSyU  Zombie liberalism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zombie_liberalism  Josephus on Japheth: https://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/text?doc=J.+AJ+1.122&redirect=true Free courses on starting and running a Catacomb Synod house church: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIe8c0mFKA_LdLH03BcWS5XPJEA_JFNhd https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIe8c0mFKA_JO_RIvgkXW5v8rUGbs1lUj https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLIe8c0mFKA_Ks3jH4ys3jKLa7G0OL45vj   Join us on Telegram for all your CONTENT needs: https://t.me/VeryLutheran  Support the show! https://verylutheran.gumroad.com/  We FINALLY have Crypto links: Bitcoin: bc1qd6fpt493f57t7t0tw4sggxetu5vqk0nsgsuy3y Ethereum: 0x9557BbedE17AD80383e4381230f984F13C638fE2 Monero: 42U8frwJ4g79pncz5PZp1dgfn9LWbrXhF8uKEWHVkKT2DVKkP7dPz5XYeop1zM5NkEgGVJ52q9hyM6ZXtS4kiTG8241hRzC  Check out Myles's new site! https://ageofruin.info/ We've got merch now, check it out! https://vlp-3.creator-spring.com/  Check out the new youtube channel we put out! https://www.youtube.com/@CatacombChurches Are jews the chosen people of God? No: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pzHB5Caglgo RSS Feed: https://feeds.libsyn.com/106598/rss If you have questions about the Christian faith or just want to get in touch with us, we can be reached at [email protected]