Data on church growth over the past several decades reveal that churches accommodating to secular culture lose members, many of them in fact. Pick any random number of churches that have lost significant membership and check out their acceptance of liberal theology, including as it relates to social issues such as same-sex marriage (notable American examples are the United Methodists, Episcopalians, and United Church of Christ). In Canada, the United Church of Canada, the formerly large Protestant denomination with strong evangelical roots, is now on life support dealing with a massive loss of church membership (in 2012, average weekly church attendance across Canada was less than 159,000).
Sadly, today there is a sizable group of young people raised in evangelical homes promoting the redefinition of marriage and other ideas more acceptable to secular humanists. Even at the cost of declining church memberships and weakened evangelical institutions, they are apparently fine with the idea of evangelical churches and schools traveling down a path inconsistent with what the Bible teaches. If the evangelical anarchism of these young evangelicals takes over, one can expect fewer Bible-believing institutions in the future. Seriously, why would Bible-believing parents seeking a biblical foundation for their children support churches, schools, and colleges which do not honor the authority of Scripture?
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