"...At the same time, record numbers of Christians-especially those 35 and under-are leaving the church and abandoning belief in God and Jesus Christ. Why? Are our worship services poorly done? Are we failing to love and enfold people into the church? Are we doing a bad job of fostering relationships and promoting a healthy congregational life? It may come as a shock to learn that none of these are the main reason. In a recent Barna poll, researchers tried to see why millennials (22 to 37 years old) are abandoning the church and the faith. They Identified six reasons for the exodus: 1- The church is overprotective and fails to expose people to anti-Christian ideas. 2-The church's teaching is shallow. 3-The church is antagonistic to science and fails to help believers interact with scientific claims. 4-The church treats sexuality simplistically and judgmentally. 5- The church makes exclusivist claims. 6-The church is dismissive of doubters.
Note that every single reason involves a failure to engage the life of the mind and employ apologetics to answer people's questions."
-J.P. Moreland, in the forward to Paul Gould's book CULTURAL APOLOGETICS
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