Many church leaders have come up with plans. Reason #12 – Christianity is too controlling. Reason #10 – Christian pastors and programs are irrelevant. Reason #8 – Too busy working Sunday jobs. Reason #7 – Colleges expose young people to secular ideas. There are more reason I have heard beyond those mentioned by Barna. I have been a pastor and church planter for thirty years. Reason #6 – The church feels unfriendly to those who doubt. Reason #5 – They wrestle with the exclusive nature of Christianity. Reason #4 – Young Christians’ church experiences related to sexuality are often simplistic, judgmental. Reason #3 – Churches come across as antagonistic to sci-ence. Reason #2 – Teens’ and twenty-somethings’ experience of Christianity is shallow. Reason #1 – Churches seem overprotective.
Polling expert George Barna gives us his six latest reasons. Why are the youth leaving church and God?
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