why are churches empty these days?

Question

why are churches empty these days?

Answer 1

People are realizing that it might not be real.

And they don't think that you have to go to church to believe in God.

That's what I think anyway.

Answer 2

well churches are not really empty, you might not go to church so you don't see people there or you do and people just don't go, but i dont go to church but that does not mean i am not a christian just cause i don't go and sit where there is alot of people i sit at home some days and i study the bible and i also do daily bible readings when i remember sometimes i forget to and that means i just read a little more next time that could be why some churches are empty because people study the bible at home cause the dont like big groups of people and some churches just drag the piont of what the are talking about on and on, so it makes it boring

Answer 3

I could tell you the truth why churches are empty and
chances are this will be deleted by yahoo?

Yahoo has some very very scrict guidelines and I would love
to tell you why churches are empty and it simply is
because some people cannot and will not go to church at
all for some reasons or another and all I can really say

Answer 4

Our Church isn't ....we have to get there early to be assured of a decent seat. We have 5 services on the weekend...all well attended. On Ash Wednesday there were 3 services...and the evening one had standing room only. We have a big church building too...it sits many people.

I'm sure some are empty...but I believe it has to do with what's being offered there. Our church is full because the priests are faithful to the Word of God and the teaching of the Church.

Answer 5

It depends apon which church you are talking about. Many modern service churches are growing and gaining membership, because they have adapted to society and create an entertaining service. They do this through music and skits and preachers who usually focus on telling interesting stories. The traditional churches that haven't moved forward are getting less followers because they are migrating to the more up to date models.

Newer churches usually focus on the positive aspects of christianity, which is good I guess. It would be a bit depressing to hear a sermon that focuses on Exodus 31:15. Which would tell us that if we work on the Sabbath we are to be put to death. Especially if you had to work after church.

Answer 6

More people per population % is going to church now then ever it in the States of America.It might be that as in my old neighbourhood some minority's moved in and the whites moved out.so my churches attendance fell considerably.as they started going to another Church.
I read that their was a study and most people went to church mainly for the fellowship.
a lot of Churches or just mainly considered by people to be social clubs.I believe.
I am looking right now for a Spirit filled Church.I don't go to Church just to socialize.
I hope that you will find what your looking for.
Love and faith and
the Spirit of God .is what i concern myself with.It is my comfortor and my guide thru life,and will lead me to heaven when I pass on from this world.I dont get into religious dogma.
Peace

Answer 7

Because it's Tuesday, a weekday, most people are at work. The church I go to, is usually full especially on Sundays, on all five masses celebrated.

In a country that people are taught to think for themselves and believe in themselves alone, I find it wonderful that there are still a great number who rely in the Lord and in His promise.

Answer 8

Because they traded their history, traditions, and birthright for the fraudulent religion of “Secular Humanism”.

They have been taught that a Great Masterpiece, that combines History, Wisdom, Literature, and Sublimation, is good for ‘thumping’ but not for reading.

They have been taught that charity means corruption, and corruption means charity.

They have been taught that to be moral is to be sanctimonious, but that it is not loving.

They have taught that the only great moral value is tolerance, even to those who do not reciprocate.

They have been taught that pleasure is life’s only reward.

They have been taught that knowledge and religion are mutually exclusive, that there is no logic in the Divine, and that religion is the domain of the ignorant

And they have been taught that only nutters think of providence, and not that it is the most natural of human needs.

Answer 9

In the end times, it prophesied that this would happen. We would leave the Church of the Age of Philadelphia (brotherly love) and enter into the Church of the Age of Loadicea (spelling is incorrect). In this age, God tells his people that they are "luke warm". Not hot nor cold. People would say that others are free to believe what they want. They would be neither hot to His kingdom nor cold.

Churches would fill with people who would profess faith with their mouths but not their hearts. People, like myself, would stop going to church because of this hypocrisy (again spelling).

Answer 10

Because people are now coming to their senses, and know that all churches are there for the money nothing else, it's time people quit supporting religion it's the poorest investment out there today.

Answer 11

The old type of church is empty because it's so damn boring.