Trends inChurch and Culture

Ed Stetzer, Ph.D.President of LifeWay Research

DropoutsAccording to the LifeWay

Research study, 70 percent of young adults (who attended

regularly for at least one year in high school) ages 23-30 stopped attending church regularly for at least a year between ages 18-22.

Discipleship

Concerns about Discipleship

The Reveal Study

The Pew forum study

The Shape of Faith to Come

Young Adults

Young Adults and Their Views

UnChristian (Kinnaman and Lyons)

They Like Jesus but not the Church (Kimball)

Lost and Found (Stetzer, Stanley, Hayes)

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