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Essential Church?
Rainer, Sam S

Essential Church?

2008
9780805443929
259 pages | eng
Dewey 277.3
LC Classification BV652.25.R363 2008

Subject

  • Church Attendance
  • Church Growth
  • Church Work With Young Adults
  • Ex-church Members

Plot

Why do so many young adults (18 to 22) leave the church, and what will it take to bring them back? This important question is examined and duly answered in Essential Church? The book is based on a study of one-thousand so-called "church dropouts" who were interviewed about why they left. Their answers are quite surprising, having less to do with "losing their religion" and more about the desire for a community that isn't made stale by simply maintaining the status quo. In turn, the Rainers offer churches four concrete solutions toward making their worship community an essential part these young people's lives again: simplify, deepen, expect, and multiply. -- from publisher description