Youth ministry – 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, is based on reviews of different reports and surveys examining millennial attitudes toward religion and relies most heavily on four major research efforts.

The report was completed in collaboration between Pinetops Foundation and The Veritas Forum.

According to the report’s authors and to Greg Stier, who founded the national youth ministry organization Dare 2 Share and has written several books on the topic, the massive disaffiliation trend over the next 30 years will represent the largest missional opportunity in U.S. history.

But in order to respond to the trend, Stier believes that churches need to reimagine the way they do youth ministry.

“If you were to go back to the retention rate of Gen X from 20 years ago, that would slow down [disaffiliation] to 20 million young people,” Stier told The Christian Post. “That’s more than the First and Second Great Awakenings and all the Azuza Street Revival and all of Billy Graham’s converts combined.”

The report relies on research efforts like Pew Research Center’s Religious Landscape Study (2007-2014), the Baylor Religion Survey (2007 to 2011), a September 2016 survey from the Public Religion Research Institute and the Gallup Annual Religion Surveys (1992-2016).

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If not more than that sef

The better informed 0-14 would indeed find it rather difficult to believe in the God of today and woukd redefine God for their own time.

This generation, for instance, is finding it difficult to love their neighbours, not to talk of their enemies whom Christ said love, but see the new generation requesting you extend that live to the Earth.

https://youtu.be/KAJsdgTPJpUG

The next generation would insist on loving the universe!

When a man rediscovers himself and realizes how a particular belief system has been imposed on him by his forebears........the rest becomes history..

Unbalanced statistics. Why not also tell us the number of people that will accept the religion of Christianity by the year 2050 along with these facts.

If two can make the earth filled with thousands of people of the same kind, eight persons to replenish the earth again after the flood, five loaves of bread and two fishes to feed more than a thousand persons, then God is still able to win souls to the kingdom of Christ Jesus by the power of the Holy Spirit without any form of ache.

Thanks.

God bless.

Abegi,where are they going to?