ANY SECOND NOW

from Midwest Conservative Journal by The Editor

Speaking of circling the drain…no, seriously, those progressive Christians due to flood into Episcopal churches because of Gene Robinson are JUSSSSSSSSSST about there:

The Episcopal Church continuesin its course of a steep decline in the wake of its divisions over doctrine and discipline, with the national office reporting that in 2009 average Sundayattendance (ASA) fell by three percent to 682,963.

That’s why 815 is putting so much money into those lawsuits. They’re going to need someplace to put all those people.

As of the end of 2009, the Episcopal Church reported having 2,006,343 active members

Half of those can be identified by their empty church pew disguises. [Okay, Johnson, that was completely uncalled for! - Ed]

at its peak in the 1960s the Church counted over 3.5million members. The church shed 22,294 members in 2009, following a loss of 22,565 in 2008. Income from parochial giving also declined by 2.8 per cent last year, falling to £1.33 billion.

The reason why all those new members haven’t arrived yet is that they’ve been slowed down by all those repairs they’re doing on the interstate. Hey, which one of us hasn’t been, am I right? But they’re coming.

Haiti remains the largest Diocese inthe church with 83,698 members, followed in size by Texas, Virginia and Massachusetts. The smallest Diocese remains Venezuela with 792 members.The Church’s largest parish remains St Martin’s Episcopal Church in Houston with 8,311 members, while 126 congregations have less than 10 active members.

In fact, I think I can see them coming right now!! Yesssss!! TOLD YOU!! No, wait, those are Pentecostals, Baptists and Catholics. Never mind.

The median average Sunday worship attendance for the Episcopal Church’s 6,895 churches fell to 66. The numbers show a cumulative loss of over 19.3 per cent in ASA from 2002-2009, Canon Kendall Harmon of the Diocese of South Carolina noted.

So what? When all those progs get here, they’ll have plenty of room.

“This is a cataclysmic decline that suggests the immediate need for an all-hands-on-deck leadership summit focusing entirely on the issue of evangelism and parish health. Not only is the TEC leadership not doing this, the fact that they are not doing it is not even bothering them — a truly tragic situation,” Canon Harmon noted.

Kendall, Kendall, Kendall. You’re not quite grasping the concept here, Canon. Do you know why the Inverted Jenny is such an expensive stamp? Mainly because there aren’t that many of them.

It’s basic economics. Something there’s a lot of is a whole lot less valuable than something that’s rare. Coarse sea salt and diamonds are both crystals but you have to take out a loan to buy the second whereas you can buy the first any time you want.

By intentionally keeping their numbers down and not trying to get more people to join TEO, each individual Episcopalian automatically becomes more valuable, more sought-after and more prestigious than individual Catholics, Baptists or Pentecostals thus automatically drawing in all those secular leftists who areJUSSSSSSSSSST about to arrive. See how that works?

Economics. Your best education value. Explains pretty much everything, really.