VENTURA, Calif. (WordNews.org) Oct. 2, 2011 — A recent Barna study finds 59 percent of young Christians leave the church either permanently or for an extended period of time.
But the study found no single reason emerged for the separation.
The top three reasons were: Churches seem overprotective, either “demonizing” everything outside the church (23 percent) or ignoring problems in the “real world” (22 percent; teens and 20-somethings said their experience with Christianity was shallow (20 percent said God seems missing from my experience of church); and churches come across as antagonistic to science (25 percent).
The survey was conducted between 2007 and 2011, with interviews of 1,296 current and former churchgoers between the ages of 18 and 29. The survey has a margin of error of 2.7 percentage points.
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59% of young people disconnect from church
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