Recent estimates indicate that, although 72% of residents of England consider themselves Christian, very few of them actually go to church. Of those that attend church regularly, however, about 40% are evangelicals.

Rev Joel EdwardsRev Joel Edwards (at right), General Director of the Evangelical Alliance, comments.

"There are evangelicals right across the Protestant spectrum as well as evangelicals within some pockets of Catholicism itself," he notes.
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Thanks to the broad appeal of the gospel message to diverse groups of people, Edwards says evangelical churches in the U.K. are thriving.

"Anywhere where one sees that kind of combination of people who have confidence in the cross, confidence in the Bible, and confidence in our mission to the world, the church remembers why it's here," he says, "and very often that leads to an explosion of life in our liturgy and worship, our evangelism, our personal witness, and our commitment to the poor and the marginalized."

That kind of confidence seems to be flagging in the Church of England and faltering badly in the Episcopal Church and the Anglican Church of Canada.

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