35 million young people to have abandoned the Christian faith by 2050 – report
by Samuel Smith, Christian Post:
With 35 million youths raised in Christian families projected to disaffiliate from Christianity by the year 2050, youth ministry leader Greg Stier believes churches can’t settle for simply slowing down the bleeding.
“How about not just slowing down the bleeding, what if there was a revival that flipped those stats?” he asked. “That is what we are praying for. How do we flip the switch?”
The 131-page report, titled The Great Opportunity, pulls together the data of numerous studies to examine millennial attitudes toward religion and relies most heavily on four major research efforts.
The report was completed in a collaboration between Pinetops Foundation and The Veritas Forum.
The report’s authors and Greg Stier, founder of youth ministry Dare 2 Share, the massive disaffiliation trend over the next 30 years will represent the largest missional opportunity in US history.
But in order to respond to the trend, Stier believes that churches need to reimagine the way they do youth ministry.
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