Review: Churchless: Understanding Today’s Unchurched and How to Connect with Them from the Barna Group; George Barna and David Kinnaman, General Editors
Review: Churchless: Understanding Today’s Unchurched and How to Connect with Them Barna Group; George Barna and David Kinnaman, General Editors Tyndale Momentum 2014 This books validates the trends in declining church attendance in a way that I think is helpful. How so? They spent years investigating the people that make up the unchurched and dechurched groups. The findings are revealed in this book in simple narratives and graph formats with each chapter concluded with a few questions for the reader to consider. Probably the most surprising finding for me was that 1 in 6 unchurched Americans is a born again Christian. Yes, they do give the definition of born again and it is precisely what most believe it to be. So what is going on? Why the disconnect? No spoilers here, but they do explore those questions and reveal some interesting information. The book also discusses other groups too like th...