In his new book America at the Crossroads (Baker Books), George Barna offers a disturbing survey of the trends impacting American culture and the challenges they pose to the church. In one chapter he offers insights about the unchurched, including these data points:<\/p>\n
* \u201c46 percent of adults are now unchurched \u2013 an increase from the 35 percent in 2005.\u201d<\/p>\n
* \u201c62 percent of the unchurched consider themselves to be Christian.\u201d<\/p>\n
* \u201c59 percent of Americans disconnect from church life either permanently or for a prolonged period of time between the ages of fifteen and twenty-nine.\u201d<\/p>\n
* \u201c48 percent of the unchurched indicate they are not connected to a church because it provides no value.\u201d<\/p>\n
* \u201c14 percent of unchurched people said they are open to trying a new church.\u201d<\/p>\n
Barna adds these observations: \u201cAttracting churchless people to corporate faith usually requires more than a few incremental refinements in outreach strategy and tactics. This is about more than improved marketing and having greeters at the church\u2019s front door.<\/p>\n
\u201cChurches are facing a radically different outreach environment than existed a decade ago, including an antagonistic media that continually portrays churches in a negative light. The unchurched population is substantially larger and has a different demographic profile than in the past. To penetrate that population, churches must raise their game to meet more demanding and sophisticated expectations than ever. And, in most cases, the church community will have one shot at persuading the churchless to return for another experience.\u201d<\/p>\n
In his new book America at the Crossroads (Baker Books), George Barna offers a disturbing survey of the trends impacting American culture and the challenges they pose to the church. In one chapter he offers insights about the unchurched, including these data points: * \u201c46 percent of adults are now unchurched \u2013 an increase from … Continue reading “46% of U.S. Adults Now Unchurched”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33399","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sermons"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33399","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33399"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33399\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33399"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33399"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.biblia.work\/sermons\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33399"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}