By Karl Vaters Leadership Journal, 2015 Don’t Like How Your Church Is Changing? This Is For You If you’re a long-time, faithful church member who doesn’t like the way your church is changing, I have one thing to say to you. Thank you. For what? We’ll get to that soon....
Perspectives By Sarai Rice First, apparently, by leaving it. According to America’s Changing Religious Landscape, the latest report from the Pew Forum, the percentage of adults who describe themselves as Christians dropped from 78.4% in 2007 to 70.6% in 2014. In the...
The Kansas City Star By Jonathan Merritt Fifty-nine percent of millennials who grew up in a Christian church drop out of it permanently or for an extended period, according to research by Barna Group. Among the most common reasons for leaving are millennials’ beliefs...
By Rachel Held Evans Bass reverberates through the auditorium floor as a heavily bearded worship leader pauses to invite the congregation, bathed in the light of two giant screens, to tweet using #JesusLives. The scent of freshly brewed coffee wafts in from the lobby,...
By Jeff Brumley The value and purpose of church membership is becoming an increasingly hot topic in Baptist and other congregations these days. And that’s “hot” as in controversial and heated, not popular. And it’s one that occasionally pits older and younger...
