“It’s not that the congregation can’t keep going financially, but the dwindling membership -mainly of elderly people -has taken its toll. “One year we had so many deaths of our members, it was really noticeable,” says Elcomb. “As the months went by, we knew unless something happened we would have to close. We’re down to ten families and ten families can’t keep the church going.””

Yet again, we see the wages of liberalism being paid. If you take the soul out of Christianity as the leadership of ACiC has done, then the people drift away and the churches die.

If other congregations want to avoid a similar fate, then they have to take their collective heads out of the sand and really *think* about the challenge posed to the church today by liberalism. If they try to sit on the fence, they will go the same way as this congregation.