Director of St Mark\u2019s National Theological Centre and head of the School of Theology at Charles Sturt University, Professor Tom Frame, says churches must take some of the blame for the decline.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Christianity that most Australians have encountered is weak and insipid and in more than a few instances uninspiring and unintelligible, and the majority have no idea of what the Christian religion is offering,\u201d\u009d he writes in his book Losing My Religion: Unbelief In Australia.<\/p>\n
Professor Frame points to what he believes are three reasons for this.<\/p>\n
\u201cTo some degree some churches are caught in a time warp, they\u2019ve got the social and cultural forms of the 1950s and 1960s and have been unable to embrace the 1990s and the new millennium, so they do seem to be locked in time and their message with it,\u201d\u009d he told ABC Online.<\/p>\n