Five Reasons to Not Give Up on Church

Something strange is happening in American Christianity right now: People are coming back to church while other people are still quietly leaving it.For years, the dominant story was decline. Younger adults were deconstructing, drifting or deciding Sunday morning had better uses than fluorescent lobby coffee and another round of vaguely stressful small talk. Much of that story was real. Plenty of people left because they were hurt, exhausted or unconvinced the church had much to offer beyond prog