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Article: Church without walls: only five percent of Scots attend the Church of Scotland.(Book Review)
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- Presbyterian Record
- Article date:
- May 1, 2003
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The Church of Scotland is standing at the crossroads. Its role as the national church is secured by government act; but, according to census data, only five per cent of the population attends Presbyterian services on Sunday mornings. With attendance dropping, the church is having a hard time justifying its enormous presence in cities and towns. The cost of maintaining its buildings and ministers cuts into its reserves, yet the church is still called to minister to the spiritual needs of a people who are falling further away from the Christian message.
"In Scotland, we are still, just about, a Christian people, but we are well on the way to becoming a godless ...