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Are Young People Really Leaving Christianity?- by J Warner Wallace - January 12, 2019

 
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Are Young People Really Leaving Christianity?- by J Warner Wallace - January 12, 2019
J Warner Wallace is the author of "Cold Case Christianity".

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Much has been written about both the Biblical illiteracy of teenage believers and the flight of young people from the Church. Many have observed this trend, and I too have witnessed it anecdotally as a youth pastor (and shamefully, I contributed to the trend for some time before I changed course). Some writers and Christian observers deny the flight of young people altogether, but the growing statistics should alarm us enough as Church leaders to do something about the dilemma. My hope in this post is to simply consolidate some of the research (many of the summaries are directly quoted) so you can decide for yourself. I’m going to organize the recent findings in a way that illuminates the problem:

MUCH more at link above.
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Re: Are Young People Really Leaving Christianity?- by J Warner Wallace - January 12, 2019
Most church buildings are dead inside. The real church in the USA is mostly isolated individuals who worship and learn in their own homes. The future of the church in USA is underground.
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This young person did. The churches are pretty empty from what I hear. It's not the only reason but I think I'd blame the Internet for why you people are leaving more than anything.
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Re: Are Young People Really Leaving Christianity?- by J Warner Wallace - January 12, 2019
Jim Wallace is a solid dude
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Most church buildings are dead inside. The real church in the USA is mostly isolated individuals who worship and learn in their own homes. The future of the church in USA is underground.
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Thread: Over 70% of Churches Reject Basic Biblical Teachings
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Re: Are Young People Really Leaving Christianity?- by J Warner Wallace - January 12, 2019
The Bible is the ultimate MK
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Re: Are Young People Really Leaving Christianity?- by J Warner Wallace - January 12, 2019
Christianity was sustained for centuries when the primary path of cultural transmission was the family and then the local community, including churches.

In the US this held pretty much together up through WWII and a little beyond. The public schools pretty much supported the parent-community model and did not advocate other forms of indoctrination.

All that has long been changed, starting in the 50's and rapidly spreading with the widespread insertion of the state/commerce/subversive groups into the household as a competing line of cultural transmission (indoctrination) during all waking hours - originally radio/TV and now all the electronic gadgets.

As a result, parents with traditional cultural views have been competing for decades with the state, commerce, and subversive groups for the minds of their children.
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Re: Are Young People Really Leaving Christianity?- by J Warner Wallace - January 12, 2019
They are leaving churches and that is understandable. The wheat and tares are being separated hard right now.

uke 21:36 King James Version (KJV)

36 Watch ye therefore, and pray always, that ye may be accounted worthy to escape all these things that shall come to pass, and to stand before the Son of man.
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This young person did. The churches are pretty empty from what I hear. It's not the only reason but I think I'd blame the Internet for why you people are leaving more than anything.
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Why people* Didn't mean you OP. Can't seem to type today.
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This young person did. The churches are pretty empty from what I hear. It's not the only reason but I think I'd blame the Internet for why you people are leaving more than anything.
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Why people* Didn't mean you OP. Can't seem to type today.
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No worries hf

I don't attend church anyway.
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Re: Are Young People Really Leaving Christianity?- by J Warner Wallace - January 12, 2019
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