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advice to young pastors: stop, drop, and read American Grace
Robert Putnam is the most careful purveyor of survey data alive. He understands religion in America as few others do, and with great appreciation for its benefits. So when he speaks, we’re smart to listen. And this is what he’s telling us: evangelicalism in America grew robustly in th 1970’s and 1980’s (when my church community, Vineyard, was founded.) But by 1990 it hit a wall, and since then has been in numerical decline.
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