“Protestant churches are losing young adults in “sobering” numbers, a survey finds.Seven in 10 Protestants ages 18 to 30 — both evangelical and mainline — who went to church regularly in high school said they quit attending by age 23, according to the survey by LifeWay Research. And 34% of those said they had not returned, even sporadically, by age 30. That means about one in four Protestant young people have left the church.
“The proportion of young adults identifying with mainline churches, he says, is “about half the size it was a generation ago. Evangelical Protestants have barely held their own.” In research for an upcoming book, unChristian, Barna Research Group director David Kinnaman found that Christians in their 20s are “significantly less likely to believe a person’s faith in God is meant to be developed by involvement in a local church. This life stage of spiritual disengagement is not going to fade away.”
TheStateOf . . . Christianity in America. Christianity is the only thing holding a lot of people together in their daily lives. As America grows more and more secular, I (J) think many of the things we will see will be shocking (if they already aren’t). To me, it’s essentially religion vs the media. The media mocks Christianity.
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