Last week at The Washington Post, Barry Hankins and I offered three reasons why Southern Baptists are on the decline, and three ways to address it. They include getting serious about evangelism, defeating “Moralistic Therapeutic Deism,” and making politics secondary.
One of the most interesting “pushbacks” I got was against point #2 – aren’t there a number of “megachurches” who peddle theological pabulum and self-help therapy, and are growing in spite of it? Bad theology does not prevent growth, it would seem.
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