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REACHING THE EMERGENT GENERATION FOR CHRIST

Monday, February 23. 2009

According to several recent surveys by Barna Group and others. a large majority of Protestant youth drop out of church before age 23. Some return after 30, but most do not. They join an ever increasing percentage of Americans who have no church background at all. These kinds of statistics fuel the Emerging Church Movement. EC Leaders and their books insist that America’s churches must seek new ways to reach these young adults. If we don’t, they will not only not be saved, but churches as we know them are doomed to dry up and die. We all know churches which are doing exactly that. The Emergent Movement is (or was) basically an evangelistic movement as in the name “Youth for Christ”. Understand this is where we must begin our study of the Emergent Movement (the actual name is changing or varied and some are now dropping the Emergent label altogether, but the phenomena labeled by it continues to grow world-wide). Read more on my website here

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