Download or read book The Self- Destruction of America's Churches written by Duke Robinson and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-17 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book offers light to today's dark world. It not only diagnoses all churches' debilitating illness, but it also prescribes strong medicine for their health, survival, and positive impact on your life and mine.If you are a serious church person, wouldn't you like your church to make sense in today's world, so you need not check your brain at the door on Sunday morning? Even if your church looks successful from the outside, wouldn't you like it to stop dying on the inside? And wouldn't you like to know what it will take for your church to demonstrate the authenticity of intellectual integrity?As a church person, along with everyone else, the modern, natural world of science shapes your thinking and living during the week. Then on Sundays, you enter the contradictory, biblical, and medieval world of the weird, enchanted forest with ghosts, demons, angels, and other supernatural creatures. To date, you have not acknowledged this deadly contradiction. Either you have not been consciously aware of it or, you have been, but you have not known what to do about it and are afraid facing it could cost you friends, emotional security, and grief. At the same time, you suspect your church is failing in its witness to Jesus' exciting good news and may be dying internally. If you are a knowledgeable, non-church person, whether you were raised in a church and left it, or as an outsider you have tried to find one that is real and been unsuccessful, you know that churches impact you, your family, your friends, and the worlds around you. This book not only assumes your life would be better if churches displayed intellectual integrity and made more positive contributions to your community, but it also describes the radical shakeup it will take to do both.While the book generally addresses how all churches can stop killing themselves, the last of four sections deals directly with the modern history, the bizarre beliefs, the shallow gospel, and the transparent contradictions of the dangerous movement known as Evangelicalism.