Floundering...or the reality of who we are as a nation and as a church is becoming clearer and more defined?

"C.S. Lewis brilliantly observes in his essay entitled, “The Decline of Religion,” that the withdrawal in church attendance in Great Britain during the 20th Century “did not create a new religious situation, but only revealed the situation which had long existed.” The good news about the supposed tales of the “decline” of America or American Christianity is that its not so much evidence that we are floundering, but that the reality of who we are as a nation and as a church is becoming clearer and more defined."  --Rev. Lee Hutchings is Pastor of Discipleship at Highlands Presbyterian Church in Ridgeland and an Adjunct Professor of Bible at Belhaven University in Jackson.