In January, Internet Monk posted a series about The Coming Evangelical Collapse in America (***please link here to see the original posts!***) It has since been talked about all over the blogosphere and elsewhere.  I would love for you to read what he says so please follow the link above!

However, for all my Canadian readers, we need to remember these posts are about the church in the USA which is quite different than the church in Canada (believe it or not!).  We, in Canada, often think that our Christian culture is the same as in the States and we read books by American publishers forgetting that they were written from from a different perspective.  It is not easy to find the kinds of statistics and commentaries about the Canadian church.

And this is why I am linking to a friend of mine at Eclectic Christian where some of his posts give statistical information and reviews of Canadian Christians and churches.

Also Michael Bell has done a great job looking at statistics that help to expand on what Internet Monk was saying.  Please, please read his posts at Internet Monk here and part two here.

One of his comments is as follows:

If you want to know what America is going to look like in forty years, and how Evangelicals will be treated, look at Canada today. . .

. . . If my statistical analysis up to this point has been correct, then Evangelical numbers in the USA in forty years will be very similar to Evangelical numbers in Canada today. Much of what Michael has said about the way Evangelicals will be treated in the USA is already true in Canada.

So, please read these posts as they will prove to be very informative and helpful as we all aim to follow Jesus in our own contexts and what that looks like for the church in North America.

Also please refer to Michael Bell’s Ancecdotal Look at Canada in reference to the aforementioned Evangelical Collapse.