The great dechurching Who's leaving, why are they going, and what will it take to bring them back?
Book - 2023
"In The Great Dechurching, Jim Davis and Michael Graham along with renowned sociologist Dr. Ryan Burge examine the largest and most comprehensive study of dechurching--the largest and fastest religious shift in US history--to drill down to exactly why people are dechurching with respect to beliefs, behavior, and belonging"--
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Grand Rapids, Michigan :
Zondervan Reflective
[2023]
- Language
- English
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- Physical Description
- xxiv, 242 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN
- 9780310147435
- Foreword
- Introduction
- Part 1. Meet the Dechurched
- 1. What Is at Stake?
- 2. Who Are the Dechurched?
- Part 2. Profiles of the Dechurched
- 3. Cultural Christians
- 4. Dechurched Mainstream Evangelicals
- 5. Exvangelicals
- 6. Dechurched BIPOC
- 7. Dechurched Mainline Protestants and Catholics
- Part 3. Engaging the Dechurched
- 8. Reasons to Hope
- 9. Relational Wisdom
- 10. The Missed Generational Handoff
- 11. Messages for the Dechurched
- Part 4. Lessons for the Church
- 12. Spiritual Formation and the Dechurched
- 13. Confessional and Missional
- 14. Embracing Exile
- 15. Five Exhortations to Church Leaders
- Acknowledgments