On declining church membership in the USA

"As a scholar, he's charted the decline in religion. Now the church he pastors has closed its doors." AP

The article focuses on Ryan Burge's church. He notes "if you look at the macro level trends happening in modern American religion, it's hard to grow a church in America today, regardless of what your denomination is."

When asking about the seeming absence of rapidly multiplying movements in the West, we might think about the intersection between those forces that are leading to declines in the Western denominations, and the efforts to grow movements.