8 Assumptions Pastors Can't Make in a Post-Christian Culture

It’s time to ask questions about your church model, your church attendance, your church resources, and your church’s ability to reach people in your local community. If you don’t, you risk repeating a history of declining attendance.

According to our data, born-again unchurched people are most likely to return to church through a discussion in their home with a trusted church leader; by attending a high-quality concert or seminar sponsored by the church; or in response to a pastor’s sermon(s) on CD or podcast heard prior to visiting a church. They are most likely to consider a

there is another layer to this decline that affects pastors more directly. Perhaps these numbers are low because in the end many people aren’t sure what pastors are good for, other than guilting people to come to church and drop a twenty in the offering plate.3

The church would need to offer a different moral vision for a different sense of a good life. Slowing down would need to be placed inside a completely different moral category of what makes life full, rather than slowing down just being a break from the pace of busyness.

Faith communities might do well to consider how to channel their digital resources toward engaging with and equipping young Christians to connect with their fellow digital natives.