Ratings boost for churches
Recent media reports in both Australia and the UK highlight how church attendance continues to drop, with some happy exceptions amongst Bible-believing churches. The latest suggestion for boosting flagging numbers in places where people are staying away is to run cafe churches, where you sit at a table and drink coffee as church happens.
This is a great idea, which could be followed up with Internet cafe churches, where you browse the internet as church happens; library churches, where you sit and read the latest fiction novel as the minister preaches; and supermarket churches, where you do your grocery shopping as the sermon is piped over the muzak system.
Unfortunately one of the suggestions yet to be made is a return to biblical preaching about the atoning death and resurrection of Christ.