Study: Fastest Growing Churches Have Modern Worship, Teach Literal Bible Interpretation
A recent study by Canadian researchers has found that churches with positive growth rates have at least two things in common: they implement modern styles of worship and they stick to a literal interpretation of Scripture.
Pastor John Daffern of MTV Church, a Southern Baptist congregation in Columbus, Mississippi, agreed.
"We are theologically conservative, according to that study, and yet we are unashamedly modern and we are in a sustained period of growth in our church, and that is in direct contrast to many of the Mainline churches and even some evangelical churches.”
"And I think the wisdom of that study is the two parts,” Daffern continued. “There does need to be a modern sense of an expression of the faith while at the same time a conservative, Orthodox view of Christianity.”...
