Waymarks: Can the dying churches in the UK be saved?

  Nehemiah 2v17-18 “You see the trouble we are in. Jerusalem lies in ruins and its gates have been burned with fire.”   I became a Christian when I was seventeen years old. I was brought up in a non-Christian home, like many families in post-war Britain. I had heard a talk from Dr Cicely Saunders, a doctor who founded the hospice movement in the UK and founded St Christopher’s Hospice in London. I became an enthusiastic convert to Christianity. But some many decades later I’ve experienced the pain of watching the churches in the UK in decline. I was at a conference some years ago and an Anglican vicar spoke of the death of the churches in his parish in Surrey. He said he was ministering to the dying, in a dying church. The problem is that there has been no arresting of that decline.    Churches litter the UK landscape like monuments from a bygone age .  Most church buildings were built in the nineteenth or twentieth century. Most are in decline .   This is ...