The Growing Indifference toward Christianity…and the Opportunity for GroupLife

If you’re tracking the Next Christians conversation, you need to take four minutes and watch this video that first appeared on the Out of Ur blog.  Very interesting.  If you remember, one of the significant findings in the study that produced unChristian by David Kinnaman and Gaby Lyons was that many young Americans found Christians to be judgmental, hypocritical, anti-homosexual and too political.  Kinnaman’s You Lost Me expanded the understanding to reveal that even young Christians were leaving the church for a variety of reasons.

The Next Christians paints a more hopeful scenario as Gabe Lyons paints a picture of opportunity for influence in post-Christian America.  Watching this video reminded me that life at crowd’s edge will be full of opportunities for groups that learn to operate there.  Serving neighbors.  Building friendships.  Becoming extended families that have open door policies.

Hope you’re already on the way there.

How do we think about working in a different kind of culture than we’ve seen in the last 50 years in America?

Can’t see the video?  You can watch it right here.