The Economic Crisis Is Our Evangelistic Opportunity!

From the NY Times: Hard times bring people to church. "In 'Praying for Recession: The Business Cycle and Protestant Religiosity in the United States,' David Beckworth [found that] during each recession cycle between 1968 and 2004, the rate of growth in evangelical churches jumped by 50 percent." The little-noticed study began receiving attention from some preachers in September, when the stock market began its free fall. With the swelling attendance they were seeing, and a sense that worldwide calamities come along only once in an evangelist’s lifetime, the study has encouraged some to think big.

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