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| Captain Cassidy 8-September-2023 |
It’s no secret anymore that evangelicals—and really all Christians—are in the middle of a cultural and membership decline. That decline has now lasted at least 15 years, and it shows zero signs of stopping any time soon.
A couple of years ago, I noticed that Boomer-age pastors and evangelical leaders are thinking of maybe passing a few of their lesser, less-powerful batons to Millennial evangelicals in their churches. That is not a typo. They still want to reach Millennials, whose oldest members are now pushing 40, for those lesser batons.
However, a recent sign-of-the-times indicates that evangelical pastors are having a lot of trouble finding replacements.
Amid ongoing decline, a wild ‘pastoral succession crisis’ appears
Barna Group is a for-profit marketing business that conducts religious research, analyzes it, and then sells the results—along with various products to fix the problems they’ve identified—to worried evangelical leaders. They’re also one of the few groups that study evangelicals at all.
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