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churches that can thrive in our secular age.

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Americans who make less money are more likely to dechurch than those who make more money.

Statistics:

In fact, in almost every instance, evangelicals who are still churched and those who are dechurched from this group are virtually identical.

half.

Today’s unchurched are much less likely to come from a church background than ever before.

(Pew’s surveys show an increase in trust in small business, but small businesses are less an institution than a collection of individuals.)

Overall, just one out of seven (14 percent) unchurched adults in the United States appears open to trying a new church. Yet, projected across the aggregate unchurched universe, this percentage represents nearly 16 million people—not a sum of souls to dismiss! And the figure may actually be more promising than imagined: only two-fifths of these