The following
statistics and comments were gathered by David Bryant in
his book, “Christ is All - A Joyful Manifesto on The
Supremacy of God’s Son.”
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In a recent study
only 35% of Evangelical youth were committed to the
exclusivity of Jesus Christ.
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As a percentage of
those who express faith in Christ in North America, only
3-6% are under the age of 30. This is the smallest number
of any time in American history.
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Every month 1,400
clergy leave the ministry.
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Every week more
than 50,000 people leave the Church, never to return.
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Over 80% of
churches in the U.S. are either stagnate or in decline.
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With every passing
year there are approximately 3,000 fewer churches in
America than the year before.
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In proportion to
the population there are fewer than half as many churches
today as there were a century ago.
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According to the
book “Lost in America,” the U.S. is so extensively
unchurched that if non-Christians in our land were to form
a nation by themselves, it would become the largest mission
field in the english speaking world.
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All of the above is
happening despite the fact that U.S. churches have spent
over $500 billion on itself in the past ten years,
primarily to shore up the internal commitment of parish
members.