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"As America goes, so goes the world. We shouldn't allow the Christian influence to diminish in this country" says Sunday Adelaja, who pastors the largest church in Europe.

"Adelaja is among a stream of pastors from Africa and other countries starting hundreds of churches in the U.S. Their congregations back home are bursting with worshippers as Christianity advances through the developing world. The clergymen see American churches as floundering - focused more on money than God and filled with stale preaching and sinfulness."

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What do you think about this trend?

Check-out this VERY INTERESTING study from Leadership Journal about the 5 Kinds of Christians: Active, Professing, Liturgical, Private and Cultural. They discovered some useful insights including the fact that many Christians rarely open their bibles.

Also, this article dove tails with a recent blog post from Justin Heap on The State of The Church.

A recent study shows that most employees throw away their co-workers' "Secret Santa" gifts. Do you ever receive gifts that you would rather toss?

In response to this waste, some are now proposing that, instead of giving undesired gifts, we donate to worthy organizations. That, instead of contributing to the commercialism of Christmas, we celebrate Jesus' birth by helping the needy.

Almost like a Holy Spirit conspiracy, a few groups have independently sprung-up to address this problem: Advent Conspiracy, Changing The Present, World Vision, FIXMAS

UnChristian HAS MADE THE LIST of AMAZON's Religion & Spirituality BEST BOOKS of 2007!

Publisher's Weekly writes: "This is a wonderful, thoughtful book that conveys difficult truths in a spirit of humility. Every Christian should read this, and it will likely influence churches for years to come."

Appropriately, it ranks just below God's Harvard...