House Church Talk - Opening the Door

[David Anderson]

>There is always room for a housechurch in your community.

Amen, brother. Look at all these who are pulling the plug on the 
institutional churches.

In other words, nobody needs to be engaged in "sheep stealing." The 
harvest is STILL truly great.

    David Anderson

A new study from the Barna Research Group of Ventura, California shows 
that millions of twentysomething Americans, many of whom were active in 
churches during their teens, pass through their most formative adult 
decade while putting Christianity on the backburner. The research, 
conducted with 2,660 twentysomethings, shows that Americans in their 
twenties are significantly less likely than any other age group to attend 
church services, to donate to churches, to be absolutely committed to 
Christianity, to read the Bible, or to serve as a volunteer or lay leader 
in churches. 

Perhaps the most striking reality of twentysomething's faith is their 
relative absence from Christian churches. Only 3 out of 10 
twentysomethings (31%) attend church in a typical week, compared to 4 out 
of 10 of those in their 30s (42%) and nearly half of all adults age 40 
and older (49%). The low level of twentysomething church attendance is 
not just due to the college years when many young adults may not have 
easy access to a church. The research shows that church attendance 
bottoms out during the late 20s when the vast majority of students have 
transitioned from education to the workforce. Just 22% of those ages 25 
to 29 attended church in the last week.