Author: Christians Focus on the Wrong People at Easter

A Christian author and ministry leader says this Easter season the church should focus on the de-churched, not the un-churched.

Ed Galisewski, author of the book A Simpler Faith, said that during the season when most churches are gearing up for Easter services and encouraging its members to think about who to invite to church, "it is time Christians [should] rethink their target audience."

For him, that audience should be the de-churched – people who might have grown up in church or have had church experiences but now don't attend regularly, or at all.

And while Galisewski isn't ultimately saying the church should focus on just one category of "the lost," he does say that it should consider its motives. "If we do, we'll move much closer to the real meaning of Easter. It's not just an Evangelistic holiday," he said.

Galisewski believes the church should reach out to those most wounded "by the religious machinery we've made of Christianity." He asks, "Shouldn't we try to right some wrongs done in the name of God, and bring wounded believers back into a caring, healing fellowship?"

Many people were introduced to a faith community as a child, and how that experience affected them determined whether they stayed in church, rejected it outright, or took a break from it indefinitely and became "de-churched." Keep reading