Also, in looking at those who I grew up with in youth group, we’re all still active in our respective churches, and I think it’s because we saw our parents serving in the church, so we are now, too. So, maybe another thing 20-somethings (and beyond) are looking for is experience–that I serve the church because the body of Christ is important to me.

Everything I read talks about how churches are drawing from an shrinking market share. My experience and gut feeling is that each big city has two or three of these large attractional gatherings. They tend to be made up of recent transplants to the city, and the “cream of the crop” from smaller dying churches around town. If the numbers (and my experience is true), 80% of kids that grow up in church don’t come back. What you’re describing is the 20% gathered from across a metropolitan area.

In the mean time, we are loosing the majority, and ignoring the non-churched altogether.

Everything I read talks about how churches are drawing from an shrinking market share. My experience and gut feeling is that each big city has two or three of these large attractional gatherings. They tend to be made up of recent transplants to the city, and the “cream of the crop” from smaller dying churches around town. If the numbers (and my experience is true), 80% of kids that grow up in church don’t come back. What you’re describing is the 20% gathered from across a metropolitan area.

In the mean time, we are loosing the majority, and ignoring the non-churched altogether.