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  [reasons they leave #2] shallow experience of christianity

  engaged in culture, ministry, outreach 27 comments

  Reason #2 – Teens’ and twentysomethings’ experience of Christianity is shallow. A second reason that young people depart church as young adults is that something is lacking in their experience of church. One-third said “church is boring” (31%). One-quarter of these young adults said that “faith is not relevant to [...]

   
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  [reasons they leave #1] churches seem overprotective

  engaged in culture, ministry 34 comments

  the back story, my story, and his story (about why young Christians are leaving the church) In Barna’s research on why young Christians are leaving the church, they identify some numbers worth repeating here: 1) the project spanned five years; 2) the research included eight national studies; and 3) nearly [...]

   
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  why young christians leave church

  engaged in culture, ministry 22 comments

  Three out of five. That’s what the research shows. According to Barna Group, 59% of young adults leave church permanently or for an extended period for one of the six reasons that we’ll be talking about here. Regardless of the reasons, that’s a number that disturbs me. I don’t like [...]

   
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  how to make a local difference

  engaged in culture, ministry, outreach 10 comments

  Last week, the Barna Group released a new report revealing that 75% of adults believe that churches have a positive effect on their local communities. This sounds like good news, right? So why is it that church membership is dwindling? It seems that people would want to take part in [...]