It\u2019s Sunday in England, and across the country many traditional stone churches are struggling to get people into their pews.
\nBut not C3, the Cambridge Community Church, one of the country\u2019s many evangelical groups. Its mostly white, middle-class congregants crowd a rented school auditorium with their arms outstretched to the heavens and their hands fervently clapping to evangelical sermons.<\/p>\n
\u201cI don\u2019t need an old church with stained glass windows where a few people show up out of obligation, not inspiration,\u201d\u009d said Ruth Chandler, a former member of the Church of England.<\/p>\n
In England\u2019s last census, 72 percent of people identified themselves as Christian. Many are Anglicans affiliated with the Church of England, which was created by royal proclamation during the 16th century after King Henry VIII \u201d\u201c who married six times \u201d\u201c broke ties with the Roman Catholic Church in a dispute over divorce.<\/p>\n
But the Church of England has said that less than 10 percent of its members are regular churchgoers…<\/p>\n