Churchless

Understanding Today's Unchurched and How to Connect with Them

George Barna, David Kinnaman, George Barna, David Kinnaman

• Publisher: Tyndale Momentum
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN:
  9781414387093
• eBook ISBN:
  9781414395982
• Topic: Theology & Religion
• Subtopic: Christian Church

Churchless people are all around us: among our closest loved ones, at our workplaces, in our neighborhoods. And more and more, they are becoming the norm: The number of churchless adults in the US has grown by nearly one-third in the past decade. Yet the startling truth is that many of these people claim they are looking for a genuine, powerful encounter with God—but they just don't find it in church. What are they (or we) missing? How can we better reach out to them? What can we say or do that would inspire them to want to join a community of faith? Containing groundbreaking new research from the Barna Group, and edited by bestselling authors George Barna (Revolution) and David Kinnaman (You Lost Me), Churchless reveals the results of a five-year study based on interviews with thousands of churchless men and women. Looking past the surface of church attendance to deeper spiritual realities, Churchless will help us understand those who choose not to be part of a church, build trust-based relationships with them, and be empowered to successfully invite them to engage.

Table of contents

• Cover Image
• Title Page
• Copyright
• Contents
• 1: Is Churchlessness a Crisis?
• 2: Our Cultural Moment
• 3: Profiling the Unchurched
• 4: Perceptions of Faith, Christianity, and Churches
• 5: Doing Faith
• 6: The Creed of the Creedless
• 7: Born Again and Unchurched
• 8: Disengaged and Dropping Out
• 9: The Intersection of Family and Faith
• 10: The Ideals That Propel the Unchurched Forward
• 11: This Is How They Roll
• 12: Reaching the Skeptics
• 13: Faith, Future Tense
• 14: Why Churches Matter
• Appendix 1: About the Research
• Appendix 2: About Barna Group
• Appendix 3: Glossary of Terms
• Acknowledgments
• Notes