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Originally Posted by SRoper  I believe R. Scott Clark has stated that church attendance actually declined during the so-called First Great Awakening. |
If a church to be a church must be governed by an ordained man and under an established order in order to be a "church" and many backwoods folks come to true faith and gathering toether to worship in some form other than this, then "church" atendance would decline even as spiritual vigor increased ---but perhaps in a form not recognized by a high churchist or someone who defines church more strictly.