Australians still open to faith and Jesus even though Christianit ...
5 days ago · Australians still open to faith and Jesus even though Christianity has declined, survey finds. Christianity has declined in recent decades, but Australians are not completely closed off to faith, with young adults being the most open of all age groups, a new study has found. The findings of the 2021 Australian Community Survey by NCLS Research ...
Share of self-identified Christians hits new low in Australia ami ...
6 days ago · The Sydney Morning Herald noted that 96% of Australians listed a form of Christianity as their religion in the first census in 1911. The largest Christian denomination remains Catholic, with 20%, followed by Anglican with 9.8%. Nearly four in 10 Australians (38.9%) reported having "no religion" in the 2021 Census, up from about 30% in 2016 and ...
Australia is awakening - ChristianToday
Oct 10, 2024 · Australia is awakening. We are in significant times in Australia right now. God is pouring out His Spirit in fresh and unprecedented ways. There are moments when the fervent prayers of the saints, the need of the hour and the divine move of God come into alignment and awakening occurs. The reality of the Kingdom of God breaks through with fresh ...
2022: the good and the bad | ChristianToday Australia
Sep 30, 2024 · A modern paraphrase of Jesus’ words might be to say: each year will have its good bits and its bad bits. We will get through the bad bits because we have peace, hope and salvation in Jesus. In Jesus, we have someone to celebrate with and praise for the good bits. Bad bits will leave us with wounds sometimes, they may tarnish the good bits.
What does it mean to be a Christian today?
Just as “Jesus Christ is the same, yesterday, today and forever”, if He were here right now, standing before us to give us a rousing speech, the words that we need to hear in the face of this battle, I believe would be the very same thing that He said some two thousand years ago. Because being a ‘Christian today’ is in truth the same as ...
'Christianity is a relationship, not a religion?'
4 days ago · The idea was encapsulated in a simple catchall phrase: "Christianity is a relationship, not a religion". This phrase has a lot of power; it captures probably the essence of what a lot of Christians sought to communicate in an age that ceased to be nominally Christian. In many ways it contained both a liberating idea and a challenging ideal.
Being an Australian Christian in 2020 | ChristianToday Australia
Sep 6, 2024 · Neville Hiatt was the 2020 Press Services International Tronson Senior Writers Award Winner for Australia. His previous posts for can be read here.. He spent a decade working for Radio Stations before his career was intermissioned by …
New survey reveals top ten barriers to Christian faith in Australia
Oct 12, 2024 · The research revealed the top ten barriers to Christian faith as being: Church abuse, hypocrisy, judging others, religious wars, suffering, issues around money, church being outdated, hell and condemnation, homosexuality and exclusivity. "The survey was completed by 1,094 Australians from a national representative sample," said Mark McCrindle ...
Being an Australian Christian in 2020 continued
Sep 10, 2024 · Neville Hiatt was the 2020 Press Services International Tronson Senior Writers Award Winner for Australia. His previous posts for can be read here.. He spent a decade working for Radio Stations before his career was intermissioned by …
Rethinking how we ‘do’ church - Part 1 | ChristianToday Australia
Oct 5, 2024 · The startling 50% drop in belief and church attendance show that how we ‘do’ church is in trouble, and that’s putting it lightly. The reality is that instead of dramatically changing Australian society, the reverse has largely happened: the church become so similar to its surrounding culture and influences that people no longer feel any ...