{"id":2385,"date":"2011-11-01T19:59:32","date_gmt":"2011-11-02T00:59:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/?p=2385"},"modified":"2011-11-01T19:59:32","modified_gmt":"2011-11-02T00:59:32","slug":"david-kinnaman-why-young-people-are-leaving-the-church","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/david-kinnaman-why-young-people-are-leaving-the-church","title":{"rendered":"David Kinnaman: Why Young People Are Leaving the Church"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>David Kinnaman is the President of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.barna.org\" target=\"_blank\">Barna Group<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>More than 60 percent of young people who went to church as teens drop out after high school. This is a striking and alarming statistic. Now the bestselling author of <em>unChristian<\/em> trains his researcher&#8217;s eye on these young believers. Where Kinnaman&#8217;s first book <em>unChristian<\/em> showed the world what outsiders aged 16-29 think of Christianity, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youlostmebook.org\" target=\"_blank\"><em>You Lost Me<\/em><\/a> shows why younger Christians, ages 16-29, are leaving the church and rethinking their faith.\u00a0 Based on new research, <em>You Lost Me<\/em> shows pastors, church leaders, and parents how we have failed to equip young people to live in but not of the world and how this has serious long-term consequences. He then offers suggestions on how to help young people develop and maintain a vibrant faith that they embrace rather than toss away.<\/p>\n<p>Paul spoke with David Kinnaman on Tuesday, November 1, 2011:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/ra\/David_Kinnaman.mp3\">David_Kinnaman.mp3<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>David Kinnaman is the President of the Barna Group. More than 60 percent of young people who went to church as teens drop out after high school. This is a striking and alarming statistic. Now the bestselling author of unChristian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/david-kinnaman-why-young-people-are-leaving-the-church\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2385","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-featured"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2385"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2387,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2385\/revisions\/2387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2385"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2385"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godandculture.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2385"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}