Every generation sees change.
But sometimes you sense you’re in the midst of a change so radical you realize that it’s change on that scale only happens only every few centuries. Increasingly, I think we’re in an such a moment now.
Those of us in in Western culture who are over age 30 were born into a culture that could conceivably still be called Christian. Now, as David Kinnaman at the Barna Group has shown, even in America, people who are churchless (having no church affiliation) will soon eclipse the churched.
In addition, 48% of Millennials (born between 1984-2002) can be called post-Christian in their beliefs, thinking and worldview....
I think the change we’re seeing around us might one day be viewed on the same level as what happened to the church after Constantine’s conversion or after the invention of the printing press. Whatever the change looks like when it’s done, it will register as a seismic shift from what we’ve known.
So what will the future church be like? And how should you and I respond? Keep reading
Also see
Churchless: Why And How America is Learning to Live Without the Church—An Interview with David Kinnaman [Podcast]
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