The Great Dechurching hitting cities across America | NewsNation Prime
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- Throughout the nation, one can spot aging, abandoned churches falling into despair, with some even bearing graffiti inside. However, on any given day, you could pass by an unassuming building like Soul City Church in Chicago without realizing that hundreds of Gen Z'ers gather there to worship.
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"Every day people are straying from the church and going back to God." - Lenny Bruce
@@Cavernicola_ ???? I don't understand your comment, I posted a quote made decades ago, that stated a truth. A truth that is talked about and proven to be happening even more than ever right here in this video. It has nothing to do with any wish.
@e.t.ethics1771 Well said!
@@Cavernicola_ Ah, I understand now, your a certified whack job. I mistakenly assumed you were a logical coherent human being. My bad, you can go back into your dream state now.
christianity is man made baloney
@@Cavernicola_ Buddhaism = religion = man made baloney
As a lifelong Christian I stopped going after the last three churches I attended long term were increasingly the most stressful and toxic places I have ever been.
Imagine what churches would be like if they paid taxes..!🤔
People tired of putting money in the basket and getting no results.
Thank you for saying that!
Tithing is not even in the bible. Chrurches are all fake and frauds, Big fat lie
Church has become more of a fashion show and pastors are dressed way better than the members and turning it into a money maker
A LOT of people believe in God just don’t agree with organized religion, I’m one of those people ❤❤
Religion is man made, Christainity is fake,a fraud a big fat lie
Yup, at 65 me too!
@@user-jc8rz2jj9r Hey so at what age did you figure out religion was bad for the soul?? I dumped chrsitainity back in 1980 here in New Orleans,, then went into bad habits,, Now I am back with God in Gnosis.
Gnostic Paul
I am 67 now
We need to start taxing churches like any other business.
Thats all churches are a business
Under the first amendment they aren’t taxable. But churches made the IRS their head. To be state subsidized. Under the 501 c3 noose. “ Church in chains” by Barbara ketay. They replaced Christ with the state and it takes years to get out of it.
Thank you for this. I wish you'd explore this more in maybe multiple episodes.
People are leaving organized religion and finding spirituality, which is a great thing.
Yeah SBNR = a big fat lie like christianity is a big fat lie. The USA is a pagan society materialists, pigs pagans,
Not shocked
These abandoned churches would be brilliant for the new immigrants coming to America .
My experience of church was, it being full of hypocrites , toxic narcissists in leadership roles only self seeking & self serving themselves.
Thank god for YT online churches , where you get the best pastors messages with out the toxic humanity of the church community.
I understand why people leave leave churches. It is true that they don't attract younger people. Growing up when I had to be seriously ill to avoid Sunday services. I rarely listened to the sermon because they were too boring.
Liza, same here! I was born and raised into a United Pentecostal cult and had no agency as a child. I was forced to go to these weird church services three times a week and hated every damned minute of it!
not to mention all the child molestation that runs rife throughout all organized religion.
I guess Heaven may not be for you. It’s ok. We need people in hell as well. lol
@brentfalkner , many of the nastiest people that I have known in my life, believe that they are going to heaven! Not a place that I want to spend eternity! 🤣🤘
@@jeffreyp1855 nice one Jeffrey Epstein
Faith= Belief without evidence...Gullibility= Belief without evidence. Faith and gullibility are one and the same thing..
What are you, 12?
@@DocsAfterDark No, but by the time I was 12, I had already realized that religion is a load of bollocks which is something that the vast majority of people go an entire lifetime without realizing..
They don’t teach about the True message of Jesus and the power of His shed Blood on the Cross and they took away the old time hymns
AMEN!!
Just the fact that he uses the word experience tells me that he is not a true born-again Christian is NOT about your experience. It’s about
Faith and grace, through faith alone in Jesus Christ.
Some, not all, are getting RICH off poor peoples tithes. That's a big turn off to a lot of people.
Pastors and leaders really need to listen up to the last line by the pastor in this video. He’s so right!
For some, church is a business. Know any in your community?
YES!!! Your SOOOOOO Right!!!
Well for one thing. I don’t want a woke church
No church wants you.
Tax the churches. All churches.
I am right in this category and know lots of others, stopped attending at almost exactly age 30…big part most American churches push politics too much for people that are that in between age to get behind so churches are filled with youth that don’t enough care yet and old people that are more worried about getting their lives right with God before they die than people so they don’t care what stray beliefs are pushed on them (sorry harsh but true), by the time you’re in your 30s and 40s you don’t want someone telling you how to vote just so you can go to their church, it’s not that you’ve lost your faith in God, I consider myself a stronger person and Christian today than when I attended church in my teens and 20s, because I’ve learned how to believe without the guidance of an in person church every step of the way.
People need to worship God now more than ever!
It’s because we’re coming into the age of authenticity and religion does not allow for individuality and freedom of self expression. Spirituality, however, does. Young people don’t want to be told that god requires them to be something or someone that doesn’t feel authentic to them. They don’t want to be controlled or manipulated, and they are educated on how to spot manipulation tactics and cult-like behaviors. Many are denying any form of god altogether, while others are turning within and finding an expansive, all encompassing “god.”
christianity isa cult, Yeshua never ever came to set up a new religion called christianity
After almost 50 years (I’m now almost 66) as a practicing Catholic I walked completely away from it. Our last two priests were charged with sexual abuse and removed from their church. Then I began doing some serious Bible reading and research and realized the Catholics CREATED many of the rituals and strange practices they have. It angered me they didn’t welcome EVERYONE to their church without ‘joining’ and paying ‘dues’ every week! Then there was the CSA (Catholic service appeal) what a joke! I will never call myself a Catholic again but I am a Child of God.
One of my two companies is involved in tearing down old structures. I recover valuable beams, doors, design elements, flooring and more. I used to try to recover things like stained glass and allow some local recover cherished mementos. The problems caused by this became onerous.
I now remove obviously valuable windows, etc. Then sell them to companies that use them as design elements in housing. Who is responsible for this? The people that would not respect that this building was gone and take what memories they could recover.
Evangelical types believe crazy things like Trump is some kind of Messiah.
As someone who had gone to the same church since I was 3 years old until I stopped going at 25 years old. For me it was my church's values. They kept focusing on the next generation. Forgetting completely about the generation that started that church (my grandparents are charter members and help start the church). The church grew and grew and grew. And became more focused on worship than the bible. And we moved from the Sanctuary to a gym. I'm sorry I don't like going to church in a gym. I want to be in the sanctuary with an organ. I am very traditional when it comes to church and miss the way the church was. Where it was a mixed bag and they had activities for everybody (singles, married couples, children, families, etc.). Now it's just focused on kids and I don't get anything out of it anymore. But that's just me.
Churches don't want to make arrangements for people who are wheelchair bound and can't drive to church and those who are deaf and have autism/sensory processing disorder and churches don't provide van transportation for the elderly and some don't have live streaming of morning worship or worship service for children and teens because the sermon are not geared for that age group
Why don't they use those abandoned churches to house migrants & our homeless. ????
You sound like a broken record- why don’t the rich Silicon Valley elites house the homeless…and why are we housing illegals? Let’s take care of the people that spent years waiting legally to come here…
No deport them .
@joycewedel9084 you put the illegals before the citizens
@@Coffee240 no
@Coffee240 Deporting you would be more appropriate.
Read your Bible in order to know what God has revealed and what we are to believe .. The Gospel .. I Cor 15: 1-4. When you read, ask the Holy Spirit to open your understanding. If you believe Christ died for the sins of all, was buried and the third day rose from the dead, then you are saved by grace through faith in His blood. Read the Acts which tells what happened after His crucifixion. Pay attention to who is speaking and to whom so to learn to rightly divide the word and understand the transition from Jew only to Gentile as well, and that, in Christ, there is no difference. Understand Jesus, in His earthly ministry, went to Jew only with very few exceptions. The true church is The Body of Christ and consists of we who believe The Gospel. Jesus did it all ❤💯
The cult is shrinking
Religion is man's quest for God. Christianity is God's quest for man. Using the term "religion" isn't relevant to a Christian. Christ was against "religion".
I quit going when the pastor told us how to vote or the country would go to hell.
Oh my gosh!
Empty churches All across Arkansas, I see it every day...
Good news is that in 100 yrs OR LESS all Protestant buildings CLOSED OUT OF BUSINESS = GOOD RIDDANCE
No faith is dead! The consequences of an economy that keeps on killing retirement savings! Retirement savings is equivalent to faith in a better future. American banks have taught us to not have faith but to expect a crisis.
The God delusion.
I’ve really enjoyed some churches that I’ve been to, but some churches made me feel bad about myself afterwards, cause the whole sermon was the minister telling us what bad sinners we were
There's nothing more authentic that the realization that only Science can explain your reality, and not religious beliefs.
I hope that this includes some zealots who are politically involved!
Good !!
No God No Peace
Know God Know Peace
NOICE 🎉
new age worship is Nonesense it’s not exalting the most high but rather suppressing it. This World is done for 🔥🌏
We are in the last days it appears that people as it says in scripture and want to go places where they want to go to have their ears itched, they want to be entertained and some don't want to hear the truth in God's Word but our church still preaches the whole truth of God's Word and God is still blessing us .We just turned 150 years last year.
Lmao. Go somewhere else with that last days bs.
🎉👏👏👏🎉
Why would you shut it down?
Is religion, a belief, ritual or just a superstition that we are brainwashed into adopting to follow ?
in their self interest
I’m Christian, but I stopped trusting churches after trying more than one. I prefer reading Scripture and praying on my own.
At church, certain individuals are predatory and emotionally abusive and leadership enables it and covers it up. People gaslight you to stay in the abuse and shame you if you walk away. It feels like a cult.
Also, church leadership sees unmarried women as problems to be solved rather than crucial players in God’s ongoing work in the world. The implicit message is that single Christian women should downplay or ignore legitimate marital concerns, such as compatibility and the desire for physical and psychological safety. Christian women are pressured to pair up even with unsuitable men, which only increases the risk of divorce. These pressures reduce women’s value to their bodies and their bodies to a religious utility.
Church leadership is right to keep honoring marriage and family, but it is not correct to value marriage and family strictly as ways to maintain a purity culture and expand the faith.
hallelujah.
Church is not meant to be just for the young, it's for everyone. Its not about the worship, its about Jesus. Until everyone, every generation is welcome at church, then it will continue to decline. One generation left without help, hope, or being reached out to, or fellowship, it will affect all generations. Jesus said come to me, he didn't say, for people to take his place and for them to say come to me, in place of Jesus. Its wrong of the church, or those that call themselves the church, to cut the young off from their family,and cause a seperation from their parents and take the parents places. God is not just for the young, he is for family, because he created family.Why would anyone want to go to a group of people that refuse to communicate with others on line, refuse to fellowship and treat people less than, and give people the silent treatment? Make them feel, like they can't interact. Just have to watch everyone else, its miserable, and its not on.
The opening words of Revelations Jesus said the churches misled their flock and the Jews proclaiming to be Jews are imposters. 🤷🏾
Sketchy
Is all bs anyway
So they just have different ideas about church and god. As an atheist this meaningless.
The Bible foretold a drying up of support for Christendom, along with other religions, in our day. (Revelation 16:12; 17:15)
But it also foresaw that some would abandon false religion not merely because of dissatisfaction or disillusionment but because of a positive purpose.
The Bible prophetically urges: “Get out of her, my people, if you do not want to share with her in her sins.” (Revelation 18:4) The “her” referred to is the symbolic religious whore, “Babylon the Great,” which embraces all the religions of the world, including those of modern Christendom.
The “my people” are sincere seekers of truth who leave Babylon the Great because they want to serve God in the way Jesus taught. Christendom has strayed so far from true Christianity that sincere people must get out in order to serve God acceptably.
Theatrical and entertainment places sadly but it’s written.
The age of Aquarius
The best religious service I've been to was a rooftop cigar bar, where the pastor who drove in on an old Harley with a theology degree gave a kick ass discussion more than a sermon, and we had beer and fries. I could have gone to a service like that at least once a month. The spiritual experience has given way to pastors (not all, but many) who are now overly political, and they wonder why their flock have left.
That’s great people needs to stop giving away their money to those bastards !!
We did home Church thru The Covid 19. In Touch with Dr Stanley. We tried going back to Church. They didn`t teach the Gospel and how to know God. The second Church was so boring and hateful. We tried several weeks and my wife looked at me and said can we leave. As we drove away from that Church it was a very Happy Day for me. "":NO MORE CHURCH FOR ME""". Good Story Thank You!!
we are born of sin because we come from ashes adum eve not born yet they r the two wittness that will inhert the earth we only think we r alive
Christianity is finally dying.🙏🏻🙌🏻✌🏻
be like the cat that purrs for it is sings the wolf howls in song no instrument
wood and stone has been robb=ing u all
I call it the IKEA effect. Young people want the cheap, the immediately gratifying, the disposable. Commitment -- to ANYTHING -- is anathema to them. As an atheist, I'm coming at this from the opposite direction: The "Great Dechurching" is nothing for us atheists to celebrate. These folks are becoming atheists and agnostics by default. It's not that they've thought about it and made a decision; it's that they just don't think at ALL!
Many still believe in God, but just don't believe you have to go to church in order to commune with Him.
Who needs all the pomp and pagentry and making pompas ministers into billionaires??? Those crumbling buildings reflect the way they cared for the poor and destitute. Secret: God doesn't want worship; He wants us to love others in order to reveal His presence.
respeak all be kind no matter the stone mary was not hole just gossip of jealous and envy money given in secret should have no name to it nor those who give their skill worth more than paper and coin beware the boosting u do
Aliens.
learn to fear god repent mud is in ears and eyes pslms r your hems
How has the Alex Crow story not made national news?
Ya mean the priest who ran off with the kid? Because it’s nothing new.
As long as you do the right thing that’s all that really matters in life. Technically not going to church isn’t a sin and some people who go to church just because there parents make them so where’s the value
3 kids forced to go to church. As an adult none of us attend church. Don’t force kids to go to church. It was a chore.
Guess who didn't do The Right Thing? The Vatican. Not just the clergy Sex abuse. The Big Secret is that they orchestrated the Kennedy Assassination, to keep The BIGGEST Secret, existence of Aliens.
This is good news!! America is stronger and better than ever, the youth can choose to reverse the role of their parents, more power to the LGBTQIA+ population, and restorative justice for all.
Sodom and Gamora were not stronger.
That last statement could be the biggest defect of our society, the fear of letting go and entrusting the new to flourish. It can’t be just the young fighting to be heard, it’s also has to be the old learning to listen. We’ve had it backwards too many times, and look where we are.
My exact thoughts. I posted my comment and yours was right below mine. I couldn’t agree more.
@lueagle09 After the Country has a Purgeeeeeeeee and becomes a wasteland come back and see if you were RIGHT 😍😍
"out here in the fields
i fought for my meals"
Not old enough to have seen the founding, but fear I will live to see its end. The Pagan sheep cheers, until the demonic powers that be, has no use for them. Roger Walker E Palestine Ohio
Complete BS from a brainwashed religious robot.
If you’re going to give up half your Sunday, Church needs to be entertaining and not so darn dull.
A church full of old people who come off “holier than thou”…who wants to go there.
Make it fun, make it modern, make it in a reasonable time frame.
Look up the meaning of Sunday and who it’s named after
Its called the great falling away or the great apostasy
Beautiful? Yes and no...yes because that means the rapture is beyond close...no because that means the tribulation is beyond close
@@Cavernicola_ that's ok...they said noah was delusional to....lol until it started raining...
@@Cavernicola_ so say u
@@Cavernicola_ God bless u...peace b still
Jesus is crying 😢
Oh please. There is no god. And more and more Americans are realizing it
Im happy😂
It's predicted in The Bible.
These are the end days and everything predicted is coming true.
Accept Jesus Christ as your Savior now and reject all of this evil, reject the state, Christians will be persecuted but Jesus will reward you with everlasting life.
The End days of Christianity are nigh. Soon to be revealed that The Vatican orchestrated the Kennedy Assassination to keep the Biggest Secret , existence of Aliens.
Yawn. Every year since 33 AD we’ve heard the same BS. Take your pick: 1) Jesus is returning during the lifetime of some of his disciples. 2) It’s the end times. 3) Repent and be saved by Jesus, and be one of “the chosen” who will survive the Tribulation. I could go on, but after close to 2000 years, who in there right mind would still fall for this BS. Religious, ALL religions are toxic. People killing people and destroying this beautiful planet, and for what, their religious differences. F-ck ‘em all.
Why don't they use those abandoned churches to house migrants & our homeless. ????
or they could go back to their home since their here illegally!!
Better yet, let them live with you.
@kurtdrexler9888 and polish a pole for a Quarter 😍
Good idea. And they are probably Catholics anyway. They would love it and create a wholesome community and fix up the church.
Those commenting negatively here about migrants and homeless, are completely clueless as to the message that Jesus was teaching. Really, really sad and disheartening.