70% of Youth in America Leaving the Church

According to George Barna, 70% of our youth are leaving church after high school and 80% will be disengaged by the time they are age 29. According to the New York Times, only 4% of teens will be “Bible believing Christians” as adults. That would be a sharp decline compared with 35% of the current generation of baby boomers, and before that, 65% of the World War II generation. http://www.nytimes.com/2006/10/06/us/06evangelical.html?pagewanted=print&_r=0)

Why has the church become so irrelevant over the past decade? There are many people who are offering solutions to this problem, but the Bible has the best solution. If we look at the early church in the book of Acts, we see that the church was devoted to prayer and the study of the Word of God. According to the book of Acts, the early church continued with one accord in prayer and supplication (Acts 1:14). Another verse…