Christianity one generation away from extinction..?

Question

WW2 generation - 65% claimed to being Christian
Baby Boomers - 34% claimed to be Bible believing Christians
Today's generatio (millanial) - 4% claim to be Bible believing Christians...This is very sad to me.. How can we reach out to a gereration which dosen't seem to care, about anything and shows no leadership or motivation...? Out of the teenagers that come to my house, not one is Christian...Is this how it was designed or can we do something..?

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by generation, I mean teens. I think you will find it easy to believe taht 4% of teens consider themselves Christian

Answer 1

where did you get your statistics? 4% That doesn't seem right at all. I mean im an Atheist but still...that seems very low. Not everyone needs to be a Christian to feel good about life or feel like their life has purpose. You forget how many other religions there are who have different gods then you do. You should take that into account. Not everyone has to be a christian.

Answer 2

While the stats seem quite skewed (after all you can do anything with stats if you carefully choose the segments and respondents) the overall question is good.

And while Christianity will unlikely totally disappear is seems there will only be a remnant of true believers. This may be inevitable but does not relieve us from the duty of making the gift of salvation know to everyone.

Why do you think this is, that Christianity is in apparent decline in the US? I think wealth, self centered me first society, apathy, and busy-ness are all destroyers. Plastic televangelist and extremists (Christian and non Christian) provide a stumbling block to truly seeking God.

I think one great downfall Christians have is fighting against science. I think the literal creationism arguments have done much to erode people’s faith, and prevent non-Christians from taking Christianity seriously. I think Christians would do well to at least accept that the creation story may be allegorical and let it go at that rather than making it a stumbling block for others. Remember church prosecution of Galileo and those who believed the earth was round and not the center of the universe

Answer 3

This is very sad to me.. How can we reach out to a gereration which dosen't seem to care, about anything and shows no leadership or motivation...?

I need to correct you on many counts christianity is about being a FOLLOWER not being a leader, 75% of americans claim to be christian, I dont know who has been telling you whatever they told you, but theyve been feeding you LIES! Take it from someone that has researched christianity to death, theres something inherintly wrong with christian's minds and spiritual state, especially with all the arrogance, hatred and ignorance that christians give to others.

If christianity does go extinct, there will be a lot of happy non christians aka hippies celebrating in the streets because they can be free spirited without evangelists breathing down thier necks telling them theyre wrong and going to hell for loving nature and thinking for themselves.

Answer 4

Where did you get those stats exactly? I don't understand where this persecution complex comes from with Christians and "the angry white man". Something like %50 of this nation believes that God created the Earth 6000 years ago in 7 days. What does that tell you (other then the miserable failure of our school system)?

The Christian revolt under Rex Reed has had a huge success and impact (mores the pity). You took over school boards, the oval office...got appointments across the Federal COurts....what more do you people want?

This is the most religious country in the western world. I have no idea where you got your numbers....but I wish they were true.

Answer 5

I do not know if the statistics are completely right, but I do know that America is the greatest mission field. If we look at this way, maybe the percentages would not be so low. We need to pray for the people that we have influence with and share Christ. We can reach out, and if they chose to respond Praise the Lord, if not allow God to work on their hearts-the Holy Spirit is the only one that can convict and change hearts anyway. Our mission field starts the moment we get up in the morning.

Answer 6

That only sounds like a reasonable value if you consider fundamentalist evangelicals who believe in young-earth geology and literal creation and the inerrancy of the literal interpretation of the bible to be 'true christians'.

Otherwise, those numbers are WAAYYYYYY off.


Oh, that's right, I remember these statistics now that I think about it. They were put out in a badly misinterpreted study by a fundamentalist group trying to terrify people into thinking that Christianity was about to die, as if having 1/3 of the world population really was being in jeopardy.

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BattleCry! That was it!

Sorry hun, their report has been proven to be a total hoax.

Answer 7

whats wrong with Judaism, all religions have good things in it but your religion hated the jews in any possible way and the jews never tried to hurt you, christians for so long hated jews without even seeing one.

you have more than 2 billions believers because the religion is easy to follow and because there were times that it was become christian or death.


but i dont hate that religion.

Answer 8

Rev 13:6 And he opened his mouth in blasphemy against God, to blaspheme his name, and his tabernacle, and them that dwell in heaven.
Rev 13:7 And it was given unto him to make war with the saints, and to overcome them: and power was given him over all kindreds, and tongues, and nations.
Rev 13:8 And all that dwell upon the earth shall worship him, whose names are not written in the book of life of the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world.
Rev 13:9 If any man have an ear, let him hear.

We can trust God, and wait. We can keep telling people what we know, and pray. We can keep following our Shepherd.
We know that if you are following a crowd, invariably, you are going the wrong way.....

Answer 9

I think those figures are correct for the UK but obviously not for the US-it'll probably be a couple of generations before it's finally rooted out there.

Answer 10

I don't know where you are getting your stats. but recent polls have shown that well over 80% of Americans claim to be Chrisitan.

But you are partially right, many talk the talk but don't walk the walk.