Category Archives: Youth

The Real Reason Why Young People Are Leaving the Church

March 26th, 2012

A few weeks back, I touched on the issue of the increasing loss of people under 30 years of age in our churches (“The Church’s Lost Tribe“). The post was less about my thoughts and more about reader explanations for why this well-documented loss is occurring. I’ll offer my thoughts today, but first, one more [...]

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The Church’s Lost Tribe

February 14th, 2012

Had a conversation with a friend from church yesterday regarding a lost tribe. No, not one in the Amazon basin of South America, but in our own church. Truthfully, many churches suffer for the loss of this people group. Maybe yours does too. The lost tribe? Adults 18-28. Sure, some of these youth group graduates [...]

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Tunnel Vision

September 14th, 2011

It is rare that I read anything on the Web that sets me a-nodding from the first line. Josh Harris’s reprint of “Exposing Major Blind Spots of Homeschoolers” by Reb Bradley gave me motion sickness from my perpetual head-bobbing in agreement. Beyond its look at how homeschooling parents can miss the forest for the trees, [...]

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