Sublime

Young people need churches that are more serious about securing souls than filling up seats. They need pastors who help them to follow Jesus as we Christians live as exiles in this world instead of putting our hope in politicians to make our culture the way it once was.

The outcome has the potential to permanently split an already divided evangelical America. Like the Trump movement within the Republican Party, a populist groundswell within the already conservative evangelical denomination is trying to install an anti-establishment leader who could wrench the church even further to the right, while opponents

LARGEST AND FASTEST TRANSFORMATION OF religion in American history, what Jim Davis and Michael Graham describe as the “Great Dechurching.”

contemporary Christianity views the marketplace as little more than a venue for generating ministry funds for the local church. This is a tragedy that has separated most of the Christian community from most of the ministry opportunity! When Jesus commands, “Go into all the world and preach the gospel,” he makes no exception for the workplace.

By 2022, the picture changed significantly. A majority still identified as Christian (68%), but that meant one-third of the population did not claim that label. While the Jewish population held mostly steady (2%), the number claiming another faith grew (8%) and those claiming no religion skyrocketed (21%). If those trends continue, the U.S. could

numbers rise 50 percent over the last three decades.

“Nons”—Christians who are not white.