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The Metro Times
Oct. 1.2020
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These years churches are in a calamitous state. To start with, the number of church-goers is
dropping sharply (see Figure 1). Many say they do not belong to any church, and those who do go less
often than they used to. (Going to church appears less and less on people's to-do list. Another worrying
fact is that fewer and fewer young people go to church, which leads to an older church (see Figure 2).
And there is also the problem with money. Keeping a church door open is not cheap. Fewer
people going to church means little money coming in. This makes it harder to keep a church open.
When the time comes for a church to close, there is little to do but to sell it. Churches that were
lucky enough to find a buyer were put to other uses. Some were changed into restaurants or school
gyms, and some even became nightclubs, for example. Churches that had little luck were knocked
down in the end.
Just like a store that keeps losing business needs to think of ways to save itself, it is perhaps time
for the church to try to win people's hearts back and play an important part in people's lives again,
This is not something that one can simply pray to get an answer to.
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